Question

Choose the correct option that completes the sentence:
Last week the bus fare was 80 pence. Yesterday it was 90. The bus fare _______.

• A. The bus fare has gone up.
  
• B. The bus fare is going up.
  
• C. The bus fare has been going up.
  
• D. The bus fare had gone up.
  

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

The bus fare has gone up.

The present perfect tense is used to describe something that happened in the past, but the exact time it happened is not important. It has a relationship with the present.

Have/has + past participle makes the present perfect.

In this sentence, since it is describing a situation which has happened in the past, we would be using present perfect tense. Now since, the whole sentence is in the third person, we would be using "has" and not "have".

("have" is used in case of first and second person framed sentences.)

"Had" is in the past tense, thus, option D is wrong

Now, for the past participle, it the form of a verb, typically ending in -ed in English, which is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and sometimes as an adjective. In this case the past becomes, "gone"

In case of option B and D, "going" is in the continuous form and "had gone" is the past tense

This makes option A correct