Multiple choice

Directions: Give the appropriate replacement for the underlined word(s) in the given sentence to make it grammatically correct. If no improvement is needed, mark (4) as the answer.

Rural life in under developed countries has been stagnated for countries on end.

  1. stagnantly

  2. stagnating

  3. stagnation

  4. No improvement needed

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of tense usage. This is a case of present perfect continuous tense. In such cases, we use 'has been + verb+ing'. Thus, 'stagnating'.