Question

The thief and the eye-witness
(i) has escaped
(ii) has been escaping
(iii) was escaping
(iv) have escaped

Give reason otherwise don't answer​

Answer 1

Option 4: The thief and the eye-witness have escaped.

• On observing the sentence, we can say that the speaker is talking about two people hence plural form must be used i.e. "have" must be used.
• Moreover, we can say that the sentence must be in the simple past tense, hence the correct option that could be used to complete the sentence will be "have escaped".