Question

Complete the sentence using the most appropriate form of the verb in brackets:
Rohit (learn)_________________Urdu for 5 years.

Answer 1

Hint: The form of the verb changes with number of subjects (singular or plural) and also with time of occurrence of the action. So we have to consider both subject verb agreement and tense of the sentence to choose the appropriate form of verb.
Example: You have been standing there for one hour (Affirmative: have/has been + present participle (verb + ing), that means you are still standing thus the present perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an action or event that started in the past and is still happening. Some verbs are not usually used with present perfect continuous because they are not action verbs, for example: believe, belong, depend, hate, know, like, love, mean etc.

Complete answer:
The given question is of past perfect continuous tense so we have answered the question according to the condition.
The most appropriate form of the verb is “has been learning”
Rohit has been learning Urdu for 5 years. Hence this is the correct answer.

Note: Has been learned in the present perfect continuous tense which is used to show that action started in the past and has continued up to the present moment. The present perfect continuous usually emphasizes duration of time.