Question

The children _________ playing for the last one hour. ( Use the appropriate forms of the word

‘has’)​

Answer 1

The children have been playing for the last one hour

• Fill in the blanks questions consists of a blank space in a sentence that needs to be filled in order to make a meaningful sentence.
• The blanks are generally filled with correct verbs, tenses, articles, nouns and pronouns.
• Verbs are the terms that generally tell about an activity or a happening.
• The correct fill-in-the-blank is - Have Been
• Have been is generally used in the action which is started in the past. It shows that something started in the past but continues in the present.
• It is used as the present perfect continuous tense.
• In the given sentence, the children were playing for a long time.
• Thus, the correct sentence after filling in the blank is - The children have been playing for the last one hour

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Answer 2

have been

We can write down the complete sentence like this-

The children have been playing for the last one hour.

• The given sentences in the form of fill in the blanks, we have to fill the appropriate word at the given blank to make it meaningful sentence.
• Here in bracket the verb 'has' is given so we have to use appropriate form of has at the place of blank.
• First we have to identify what is the subject of the given sentence an according to that we have to use the form of has.
• Here in the given sentence the children is a subject which is in plural form. So we have to use have after the subject.
• When there is plural form of the subject we have to use have after it and when there is a singular subject we have to use has. If the sentence is in past tense we have to use had.
• Now according to the sentence the action is going on for the last one hour it means that the action was already started in present and still it is going on it means that we have to use present perfect continuous tense.

The structure of present perfect continuous tenses as follow

• Subject + has/ have +been + present participle form of the verb + object.

Examples of present perfect continuous tense-

1. They have been teaching in school for 10 years.
2. She has been preparing lecture for last 2 hours.
3. She has been  teaching in college since 2020.

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