I am waiting for three quarters of an hour ........

English Language (Defence) Sentence Improvement

Directions for the following 25 (twenty-five) items : 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).

I am waiting for three-quarters of an hour.

I am waiting since

I have waited since

I have been waiting for

No improvement

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Explanation:

If some action has started in the past and is still continuing, then present perfect continuous tense should be used instead of present continuous tense. So, the phrase ‘am waiting’ needs to be replaced with ‘have been waiting’ to make the sentence contextually correct.
Thus, the correct formation would be, ‘I have been waiting for three – quarters of an hour’.