JIPMAT 2024 (VA) - Choose the option which best replaces the underlined phrase. Dr. Sapra came to the school in 1995, Dr. Anand <u>had already been teaching there since five years</u>. | PYQs + Solutions

JIPMAT 2024

Grammar

Medium

Choose the option which best replaces the underlined phrase.
When Dr. Sapra came to the school in 1995, Dr. Anand had already been teaching there since five years.

have already been teaching there for five years

had already been teaching there for five years

has already been teaching there since five years

No improvement

Correct Option: 2

have already been teaching there for five years - Incorrect. This option uses "have,"which does not agree with the past perfect continuous tense needed for the context, as the action started in the past and continued up to another point in the past.
had already been teaching there for five years - Correct. This option properly uses the past perfect continuous tense ("had been teaching") and the correct preposition "for"to indicate the duration of time, which correctly modifies the original phrase.
has already been teaching there since five years - Incorrect. "Has"suggests present perfect tense, which is not appropriate as the action relates to a past context. Moreover, "since"is incorrectly used with a period of time ("five years").
No improvement - Incorrect. The original phrase incorrectly uses "since"with a period of time, which should be replaced with "for"to accurately reflect the duration.