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Question : Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

Our guests arrived; they are sitting in the garden.

Option 1: shall arrive

Option 2: have arrived

Option 3: are arriving

Option 4: might arrive


Team Careers360 13th Jan, 2024
Answer (1)
Team Careers360 24th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: have arrived


Solution : The correct choice is the second option.

The original sentence suggests a chronological order of events, with the guests arriving first and then sitting in the garden and thus, the previous action has relevance to the following action. Therefore, have arrived is more appropriate than the simple past tense "arrived".

So, the correct sentence is: Our guests have arrived ; they are sitting in the garden.

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