Question

Choose an appropriate option to fill in the blank with the help of the hint in the bracket:

Look! Somebody __________ (break) that window. (Sam sees a broken window. How would he point that out to Gary?)

• A. breaking
• B. will break
• C. breaks
• D. has broken

Answer 1

The correct option is D has broken

The present perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now, or has just completed in the present. Here, it's breaking a window. The present perfect is formed using has/have + past participle, here, "has broken".

Hence, Option D is correct.

The rest of the options do not adhere to this situation.

Option A does not contain a complete verb form, 'breaking' is a participle.

Option B states a future action but here it's just happened.

Option C states a general habit or routine but the action doesn't happen every day.

Hence options A, B and C are incorrect.