Question

Is the verb form used right or wrong? Correct it if it is wrong.
The weather is awful. It is raining all day.
a) The used verb form is wrong; the correct form is – has rained.
b) The used verb form is correct.
c) The used verb form is wrong; the correct form is – has been raining.
d) The used verb form is wrong; the correct form is – will rain.

Answer 1

Hint: The given sentence is having a present continuous form of the verb ‘rain', which is not correct. So, the given sentence is incorrect.

Complete answer:
The given verb has to be converted into present perfect continuous tense which is used to express that an action started in the past, continued in the present, and will/may continue in the future as well. In the given sentence the rain started in the past, continued in the present, and may continue in the future.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ – This option is an incorrect option because even if the used verb form is wrong the given corrected verb form is also not correct. ‘Has rained' cannot be used in the given sentence as we have to use present perfect continuous tense.
Option ‘b’ – this option cannot be the correct answer because the given sentence is clearly wrong and we have to correct it.
Option ‘c’ – this option seems to be the correct answer because the given verb form it ‘has been raining' which is a present perfect continuous tense.
Option ‘d’ – this option cannot be the correct answer because the corrected form includes the future tense of the given verb. We do not need a future tense in the given sentence.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the correct verb form of the given sentence is – has been raining. The complete sentence would be – The weather is awful. It has been raining all day. Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct option.

Note:
Don’t confuse between ‘a’ and ‘c’. Option a is having a past tense of the given verb form while the sentence is talking about that day itself. It is very clear that we need a present form of the verb.