Question

Find the errors in the underlined part:
The committee has met yesterday to discuss the budget proposal.

• A. has met
• B. yesterday
• C. to discuss
• D. No error

Hint:

Use present perfect tense for actions without specific past time, and simple past tense when the past time (e.g., yesterday) is mentioned.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The sentence "The committee has met yesterday to discuss the budget proposal." contains an error in the underlined part. The problem arises due to a mismatch between the tense used in the sentence and the time expression "yesterday".

In English grammar, the present perfect tense ("has met") is used to indicate an action that has occurred at an unspecified time in the past and is relevant to the present moment. It cannot be used with specific time expressions such as "yesterday" that clearly indicate when the action occurred.

The correct tense to use with a specific time expression like "yesterday" is the simple past tense. Therefore, "has met" should be replaced with "met".

Hence, the corrected sentence should be: "The committee met yesterday to discuss the budget proposal."