Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the following sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, ‘No improvement’ will be the answer.

There is no water in our colony for the past six days.

  1. There has been no water

  2. There will have been no water

  3. There are no water

  4. No improvement

  5. .
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A Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the verb ‘is’ is used to indicate the present tense. However, the given context is in past tense and thus, this is in tense disagreement with the rest of the sentence.

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