Question

Read the following sentence and identify if the verb form used is correct or not:

If not, then correct it:

That's a very old bicycle. How long do you have it?

• A. The used verb form is correct.
• B. The used verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is: did he have it.
• C. The used verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is: do you have it
• D. The used verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is: have you had it

Answer 1

The correct option is D The used verb form is wrong. The correct verb form is: have you had it

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.

In this sentence, a mention has been made about something which has happened in the past. Thus, the used verb is wrong as it is not inpresent prefect form. Now since, the whole sentence is in the first person, we would be using "have" and not "has".

("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, "had"

Option D is correct.