answers of fill in the blanks with the simple present or the present continuous tense of the verbs given in the brackets: Manav and Meenal usually (get) up around six in the morning. They hurriedly (wash) and (rush) to the dining table. Mrs Tripathi (give) them their breakfast. Mr Tripathi (help) her to pack their tiffins. When the children (skim) through the newspaper headlines. But today it (still Meenal (leave), they (take) their morning tea and quickly (be) Sunday, so it (be) different. Both Manav and sleep). Mrs Tripathi (listen) to some devotional music. Mr Tripathi (leisurely read) a magazine. They (patiently wait) for their children to get up.
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The present perfect tense refers to an action or state that occurred at an indefinite time in the past or began in the past and continued to the present time. This tense is formed by have/has + past participle. You can use the present perfect to talk about the duration of something that started in the past is still happening. Here, the state of not eating since morning has continued to the present. Hence, Option B is correct.
The rest of the options do not express this condition. They mention continuous actions without an auxiliary/helping verb (option A), actions that are yet to happen (option C) or incorrect verb forms 'have + have' (option D). 'Have + have' is not the desired verb form, because the latter 'have' must be conjugated, and 'have' as a main verb (latter) is a base verb.
Hence these options are incorrect.
Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. Explanation: In these verses, the poet laments about his past life and its golden moments, and associates it with the spring season.