Question

Recently , the UK car industry __________ making all the vehicles it used to because there had been a rise in manufacturing costs.
Fill in the blanks
1. had stopped
2. are stopped
3. has stopped
4. was stopped​

Answer 1

has stopped (3) is the right answer

Answer 2

Recently, the UK car industry has stopped making all the vehicles it used to because there had been a rise in manufacturing costs.

Explanation:

• From the provided sentence, ‘has stopped’ should be used. ‘Has’ is considered to be the 3rd person singular present form of the verb ‘have’.

• For example, ‘she has cold’. But ‘have’ is the base form of verb. In the given sentence, the singular 3rd person is ‘UK car industry’, thus we have used ‘has’.  

• The second part of the sentence is having past perfect tense. So it is appropriate to use ‘has stopped’ in that sentence.