Question

Which of the following sentences is correct?
a. The office has just closed.
b. The office is just closed.
c. The office has been just closed.
d. The office were just closed.

Answer 1

Hint: Consider the duration for which the action has been going on in the present.

Complete answer:
The Present Tense denotes those actions that take place in the present scenario. To frame verbs in the present tense, you must conjugate the infinitive of the verb. Conjugate means to make the verb match the subject. ‘Infinitive’ refers to the ‘to form’ of a verb. E.g. - to meet.
There are four types of present tenses:
The Simple Present Tense is used when an action is indefinite in the present. It doesn’t make use of any auxiliary verb or helping verb.
The Present Continuous Tense is used when an action is continuous in the present. The infinitive form of such verbs is preceded by the auxiliary am or is.
The Present Perfect Tense is used when an action has been completed in the present. The infinitive form of such verbs is preceded by the auxiliary has/have.
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used when an action has continued up until a point in the present. The infinitive form of such verbs is preceded by the auxiliary has/have been.
In the above question, the action has been terminated in the present. Therefore, it is in the Present Perfect Tense.

Following the rules of conjugation, the correct answer is option ‘a’ The office has just closed.

Note: To avoid making errors, consider when the action started and ended in the past. Furthermore, the other options are wrong as they are conjugated in the wrong type of present tense.