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1. 'Five years have passed since his father died'. Identify the correct simple form of the sentence from the following potions:
- A. His father has died five years ago.
- B. His father has died five years ago.
- C. His father has died five years ago.
- D. His father has died five years ago.
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The correct simple form of the sentence is "His father died five years ago". This is because the original sentence describes an action that happened at a specific point in the past (five years ago), which requires the simple past tense ("died").
- "Five years have passed since his father died." is a correct sentence, but it is not a simple form. It uses the present perfect tense ("have passed") to emphasize the duration of time from the past event to the present.
- "His father died five years ago." is the correct simple form because it uses the simple past tense verb "died" to indicate a completed action in the past.
- "His father has died five years ago." is grammatically incorrect because you cannot use "has died" with a specific past time like "ago".
- "His father died since five years." is incorrect because "since" is used to connect a point in the past to the present, not to indicate a duration of time in the past.
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