The students are playing volley ball since 8 A M ........

English Language (Defence) Sentence Improvement

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

Directions: Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a "No improvement" response will be signified by the letter (d).

The students are playing volley-ball since 8 A.M.

were playing

have playing

have been playing

No Improvement

छोटे Courses बड़े Results

Master Sentence Improvement

Prepare through Micro-courses

Try Now

Explanation:

The given sentence implies that the activity of playing volleyball started in the recent past and is still in continuation. Hence, present perfect continuous tense should be used because this tense is used to describe an ongoing action that has started at a point in the past. Therefore, ‘are playing’ must be replaced with ‘have been playing’. Hence, option (3) is correct.