Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:

Jack had a beard. Now he hasn't got a beard.

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• A. He had shaved off his beard.
• B. He shaved off his beard.
• C. He has shaved off his beard.
• D. He is shaved off his beard.

Answer 1

The correct option is C He has shaved off his beard.

The present perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now, here, shaving beard. The present perfect is formed using has/have + past participle, here, "has shaved". Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not. Hence, Option C is correct.

The rest of the options do not express this condition. They either mention actions that have already happened (options A and B) or verb forms 'he is shaved off' that do not express a complete, sensible meaning (option D). 'Is' expresses a state of being and not an action here.

Hence these options are incorrect.