Question

Complete the sentence using today / this year / this term etc. with appropriate form of verb given in the bracket.

Last year the company made a profit but _____ (make) a loss.

a) today it has made
b) this term it is making
c) this year it has made
d) this term it has made

Answer 1

Hint: Present perfect tense is a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present. It is used to describe something that happened in the past when the exact time it happened isn’t important. This tense has a relationship with the present.

Complete answer:

The syntax of the present perfect tense is- have/has + past participle of the verb.

In the given question, since the past has been mentioned (last year’s profit), we will be using the past perfect tense. Since the sentence is in the third person, we’ll use the past participle ‘has’ as have is used with sentences in the first and third person.
Let us analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'today it has made', refers to today in particular, when the sentence is making a comparison in terms of the previous year and this year.
For example- ‘Last year the company made a profit but today it has made a loss.’
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect.

Option (b.), ‘this term it is making', refers to this term in particular, when the sentence is making a comparison in terms of the previous year and this year. It is also not in present perfect tense.
For example- ‘Last year the company made a profit but this term it is making a loss.’
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect.

Option (c.), ‘this year it has made', refers to this year in particular for the comparison, and it is in the present perfect tense.
For example- ‘Last year the company made a profit but this year it has made a loss.’
So, the correct answer is “Option c”.


Option (d.), ‘this term it has made', refers to this term in particular, when the sentence is making a comparison in terms of the previous year and this year.
For example- ‘Last year the company made a profit but this term it has made a loss.’
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect.

Note: In this question, the right tense is not the only thing you need in the correct option, you also need to keep in mind that the time term of comparison should also be the same as the one used in the sentence.