Select the option that best completes the sentence: Someone ______
- (a)has spilt juice on the sofa
- (b)should have spilt juice on the sofa
- (c)have spilt juice on the sofa
- (d)would spilt juice on the sofa
Correct — A, 'has spilt juice on the sofa'. 'Someone' is a singular indefinite pronoun and therefore takes the singular auxiliary 'has'; the present perfect 'has spilt' reports a recently completed action whose result (the stain) is present now.
- (b)should have spilt juice on the sofa — 'should have spilt' expresses obligation or reproach about the past, not the plain statement that the spill happened.
- (c)have spilt juice on the sofa — Subject–verb agreement fails: the singular 'someone' needs 'has', not the plural auxiliary 'have'.
- (d)would spilt juice on the sofa — 'would' must be followed by the base form ('would spill'), and it expresses conditionality, not a completed fact — so 'would spilt' is doubly wrong.
Subject–verb agreement + present perfect: indefinite pronouns like someone/anyone/everyone are singular ('has'); the present perfect ('has spilt') links a past action to a present result.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct completion: Everybody ______ the new rule already.
- (a)have accepted
- (b)has accepted
- (c)have accept
- (d)accepting
Answer(b) has accepted — 'everybody' is singular, so it takes 'has' in the present perfect.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct completion: Nobody ______ the door since morning.
- (a)have opened
- (b)would opened
- (c)has opened
- (d)opening
Answer(c) has opened — the singular 'nobody' pairs with 'has' in the present perfect.