Question

There ____________ so many hotels in the region in recent years that gradually they__________the natural beauty of the area,

a) Were building / destroy
b) Will build / have been destroying
c) Have built / are destroying
d) Are building / have destroyed
e) Have been building / destroyed​

Answer 1

Answer:

Answer is (d)

There are building...they have destroyed

Answer 2

Correct question:

They        so many hotels in the region in recent years that gradually they__________the natural beauty of the area.

Answer:

c) Have built/are destroying  

They "have built" so many hotels in the region in recent years that gradually they "are destroying" the natural beauty of the area.            

Explanation:

• The verb tense explains the time or state of being of a certain activity (verb). i.e. whether it is happening right now, already happened or is about to happen in future.

• The present perfect simple usually focuses on the result of the event/ action/ activity in some way, and the present continuous usually focuses on the current activity itself in some way.

• We use both the present perfect simple (have or has + past participle) and the present continuous (is/am/are +verb1 -ing form) to talk about the already finished past actions and what is currently going on respectively. (which are still connected to the present.)

• "be+ing" to our sentences to show something is still not finished. It finishes after now.        

• We use am/are/is + -ing for unfinished, but soon-to-be completed actions.

• Thus, comparing these two correlations, we can say, option c) is the correct answer.

i.e. They "have built" so many hotels in the region in recent years(means the result of something done in the past ) that gradually they "are destroying" (outcomes of activity are still on ) the natural beauty of the area.

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