Question

Fill in the blanks using correct form of verb. he ____ in Bilaspur since 1990. (live)​

Answer 1

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had been living

Answer 2

Answer:

He has been living in Bilaspur since 1990.

Explanation:

• In English, tenses play a major role in expressing the time reference of any event or action and accordingly the verbs do change.

• Both 'present perfect' and present perfect continuous are used in situational circumstances based.

• We use the 'present perfect ' or the perfect when we are thinking about the past and present time at the same time ( Past and now).

• For example, They have lived. = present perfect. They started living there in 2003 but no longer live there. (indicated by the past action)

• He has been living = in the present perfect continuous, we used to look back over actions in the past and situations in the present i.e. They started living in 1990 and they will and are continuing to live there now.

• 'live+ing' signifies a continuing action that has started in the past and is still going on in this sentence. The given sentence here talks about an action that means is continuing from the past into the present i.e. till now.

• The use of 'Since' indicates that the action is still continuing in the present.

Therefore, we need to use the Present Perfect Continuous Tense. So the answer is 'has been living'.

Hence the correct verb form is 'has been living'.

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