Question

Is the verbal form used right or wrong? Correct it, if it is wrong.
I like your house. How long are you living there?
A) The verb form is correct.
B) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is - have you been living.
C) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is – will you have lived.
D) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is – will live.

Answer 1

Hint: Tenses play an important role in framing the sentences. Tenses express time, continuation and etc. in the sentence or clause. Tenses basically come in three major categories and are Past tense, present tense and future tense.

Complete answer:
Present perfect continuous tense will be used here to fill the correct form of the verb. This tense is used to express an action that has started in the past, continued to the present time and will / may continue in the future as well. Hence, the present perfect continuous tense will be used here.

Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) The verb form is correct: this is an incorrect answer because the verb form used in the second part of the sentence is wrong and therefore, making the sentence grammatically incorrect. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is - have you been living: ‘have you been living’ is the correct form of the verb because it is based on the present perfect continuous tense. Therefore, this is the correct answer.
Option C) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is – will you have lived: ‘will you have lived’ is an incorrect form of the verb and the use of this option will make the sentence incorrect. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) The verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is – will live: ‘will’ there’ is an incorrect verb form because ‘How long will live there? Does not make sense here. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer and the use of this option will make the sentence grammatically incorrect.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘D’ i.e, I like your house. How long have you been living there?

Note: The formula of present perfect continuous tense:
Subject + auxiliary have/has + auxiliary be/been + main verb.
For example, I have been waiting for two days.
As explained above, option B is the most appropriate answer as compared to any other option because other options do not other options does not follow the rule.