Question

Select an appropriate option to fill in the blank with the help of the hint given in the bracket:

(a definite time expression is unknown)
I ________ (lose) my address book. ______________ (you/see) it anywhere?

• A. have lost ......... Have you seen
• B. lost ..... Did you see
• C. will lose ........ Do you see
• D. have lost ....... Does you see

Answer 1

The correct option is A have lost ......... Have you seen

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. 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, "seen"

For option B, C and D the past forms are not there, they are wrong.

Option A is correct.