Question

From the options given below, select the most appropriate answer to fill in the blank in the given sentence.

I ________ doing this work since Monday.

• A. Was
• B. Have been
• C. Had been
• D. Will have been

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Have been

Option B is the correct answer because in the statement, the speaker says that he began working on Monday and is still working on it, which makes it the perfect present tense where work began earlier and is still in progress, and hence is correct to say ‘have been’ doing it.

Option A is incorrect because ‘was’means that he worked in the past, and is not working anymore, but the speaker says he has been working “since” Monday.

Option C is incorrect because ‘had been’ means that it is the past perfect tense where you’re looking at an event that occurred in the past from the perspective of the past, which is incorrect because here he is talking with respect to the present.

Option D is incorrect because ‘will have been’ is with respect to the future but the statement is with respect to the present .