Question

Complete the following sentence using the appropriate form of the verb given in the bracket:
today / this year / this winter
It snowed a lot last winter but _____ (snow).

• A. It hasn't snowed much this year
• B. It hasn't snowed much today
  
• C. It hasn't snowed much this winter
• D. It is not snowing much this year
  

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

It hasn't snowed much this winter

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, a mentioned has been made about something which has happened in the past which is why 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). The first part of the sentence uses "winter" which specified it is the medium of comparison. This eliminates Option A, B and D.

This makes option C correct.