Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.

Bob's wife _____ her job.

• A. Has lost
• B. Were lost
• C. Was losing
• D. Has been lost

Answer 1

The correct option is A Has lost

The subject of the sentence is “Bob’s wife.” This suggests that either the subject is doing the action or some action is being done on them. The mention of ‘job’ makes us think that the action is about the job. Our assumption gets confirmed by the fact that all the answer choices have “lost” as the verb. This suggests that the action of losing has been done on ‘job’ that would act as the object of the action. If we take the subject, the object and the verb together, we can understand that the action of losing job would be done by the subject, “Bob’s wife.” Hence, the sentence is in active voice as the subject, i.e. “Bob’s job”, is doing the action, i.e. ‘losing job.’ Also, we can understand by the sentence that Bob’s wife has recently lost her job, that is the action has already happened. So, the sentence is in present perfect tense. The present perfect is made using the auxiliary verb 'have/ has' plus the 'past participle' of the main verb. Also, in case of passive voice, “been” is used with “have.” The option that incorporates all these elements is the correct answer. Hence, Option A is the correct answer as it uses “has” indicating the active voice of the sentence and past participle of the verb “lose,” i.e. “lost” as required by the present perfect tense of the sentence.
Options B and C cannot be used as the verbs are not in agreement with present perfect tense of the sentence.
Option D cannot be used as the sentence is not in passive voice and the presence of “been” in the option indicates that only.