Question

Choose the appropriate option to fill in the blank:

A. George is never ill, is he?
B. No, he ______ ill since I've known him.

• A. hadn't been
• B. hasn't been
• C. isn't being
• D. wasn't being

Answer 1

The correct option is B hasn't been

The present perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now. The present perfect is most frequently used to talk about experiences or changes that have taken place, but there are other less common uses as well. Read on for detailed descriptions, examples, and present perfect exercises.

The present perfect is formed using has/have + past participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not.

This, sentence indicates something which has happened before, an experience. Thus, we would be using present perfect tense.

Being in second person, we are going to use "has" and the past participle in this case becomes "been". Now because this sentence in the negative form, we should use "has not/hasn't"

Option B is correct