Question

The environment has always ___in control of our destiny.
1. Is 2.be 3.been 4.was

Answer 1

The correct answer should be the option 3 - been.

The corrected full sentence will be - Environment has always been in control of our destiny.

The word 'been' is used in this context of the given sentence because the word 'has' is used in the sentence. The word 'has' refers to past tense and so, from the given sentences, 'been' is the right word to be used after the word 'always' in this context.

Since the word 'has' is used, the word ' was' cannot be used consequently, although they are both in past tense.

Answer 2

This sentence is in the perfect progressive tense since we have the helping verb has.

In English, we have three main form of tenses, namely; present, past and future tenses. These tenses are further divided into four aspects; simple, perfect progressive and perfect progressive tenses.

The perfect progressive tense make use of the helping verbs such as has/have together with been. 

The correct form of this question, therefore is:

"The environment has always been in control of our destiny.