Question

The correct option that completes the sentence:
Last week the bus fare was 80 pence. Yesterday it was 90. The bus fare ___________.
A) The bus fare has gone up.
B) The bus fare is going up.
C) The bus fare has been going up.
D) The bus fare had gone up.

Answer 1

Hint:The present perfect tense is a tense which is used to show an action which occurred many times in the past, the activity or the incidence that had happened in the past but it is not important to happen at the exact time.

Complete step-by-step answer:
In the given sentence the tense which is used is present perfect tense.
Option A is the bus fare has gone up. The sentence is written in present perfect tense.
Option B is the bus fare is going up Is incorrect as in this option the word “going” is in the continuous form.
Option C is the bus fare has been going up is incorrect as in this option the word “going” is in the continuous form.
Option D is the bus fare had gone up is incorrect as “had gone” is in the past tense. Therefore, the correct option for the above asked question is option A. The bus fare has gone up.as the entire sentence is written in present perfect tense.

Note:When a sentence is written in third person we should use “has” and not “have”. The tense of a sentence plays a very important role in deciding the correct ending of the sentence.
The sentence shows the correct example of present perfect tense which is a combination of present and past. It depicts a relationship between the two. The verb is always in the past participle. As in the above sentence, the past tense of "go" has been used. The conjugation of verbs or in other words the tense of the word helps in determining the tense of the whole subject and sentence.