Question

Read the given sentence and frame it in the present perfect tense:

Last week the bus fare was 80 pence. Now it __________ to 90 pence.

• A. has gone up
• B. is going up
• C. had gone up
• D. has been gone up

Answer 1

The correct option is A has gone up

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, it is already given that we would be using present perfect tense. Now since, the whole sentence is in the third person, we would be using "has" and not "have".

("have" is used in case of first and second person framed sentences.)

"Had" is in the past tense, thus, option C is wrong

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, "gone"

In case of option B and D, "going" is in the continuous form and "been gone" is the wrong usage

This makes option A correct