Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
 He _______to a senior designer.
a. Has been promoted
b. Has promoted
c. Promoted
d. Are promoted

Answer 1

Hint: The student should go through the options carefully after reading the sentence to understand what the sentence implies. Choose the option which agrees with the tense of the given sentence and is also grammatically sound.
Complete answer: A verb is a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. It is the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
In the given question, we have to find out which of the given options includes the answer in
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'has been promoted', refers to ‘present perfect tense’.
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as present perfect is a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present, and the sentence indicates that ‘he’ has just been promoted to the position of senior designer.
Option (b.), ‘has promoted', is incorrect as it indicates that he was not the one who was promoted, which is not the case as the usage of the preposition ‘to’ indicates that he was the one who was promoted.
Option (c.), ‘promoted', refers to ‘promote’ in simple past tense.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as we need present perfect tense since the sentence indicates that ‘he’ has just been promoted to the position of senior designer.
Option (d.), ‘are promoted', refers to ‘are’ which is used for plural subjects.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as ‘he’ is an individual and thus a singular person, not plural.Option a is the correct answer.

Note: In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of tenses. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. There are three tenses - past, present, and future.