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

English Language (CHSL) Sentence Improvement

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select No improvement.

There was a long queue at the post office and by the time I have reached the counter I was told the printer was not working.

I reached the counter

No improvement

I reach the counter

I am reaching the counter

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Explanation:

There was a long queue at the post office and by the time I have reached the counter I was told the printer was not working.

The underlined part of the sentence is grammatically not correct as the word 'have' is not needed in the sentence.

Here in the sentence 'have' is being used as a verb and the word is used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood.

Hence the word is not needed in the sentence so option 1 is the correct answer.