Question

Fill in the blank using a suitable verb form:

happen/meet/be/see

A: Mike was late for work again today.

B: Again? He ________ every day this week.

• A. has been late
• B. has happened late
• C. has seen late
• D. has met late

Answer 1

The correct option is A has been late

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.

Since, over here something that has happened has been described it is an example of 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.)

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, "been"

Option A is correct.