Question

Fill in the blank with the correct tense in the following sentence:

As he has lived so he ______.

• A. had died
• B. will die
• C. died
• D. none of the above

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

will die

Option B is correct. The sentence compares the subject's present state of living with his future death. Thus it is correct since only upon living will he die.

Option A is incorrect. "Has lived" is present perfect while "had died" is the past. In the case of A, it makes no sense that the subject is living when he had already died.

Option C is incorrect for the same reason as option A. The past cannot occur after the present.

Option D is incorrect since the answer lies in option B.