Question

Read the sentence to find out possible substitution for the underlined part-
Everybody who finished writing can go home.
(a)Had finished
(b)Have finished
(c)Has finished
(d)No improvement

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully. Find out the subject, predicate and object of the given sentence. Try to find the core meaning of the given sentence and the tense it is written in. Try to figure out the tense of the options and choose the one that fits the sentence.

Complete answer: The underlined word is “finished”. It is a verb which means to bring something (a task or an activity) to an end; to complete. For example, They were straining to finish a job. We have to find out a word which is a substitution for “finished”.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ is Had finished. It is in the past tense. It cannot be used in place of ‘finished’ as it won’t align with the tense of the given sentence.
Option ‘b’ is Have finished. It is the plural form of ‘had’, and cannot be used in place of ‘finished’ due to the same reason.
Option ‘c’ is Has finished. The sentence is in the present perfect tense (it is used to indicate an action which started in the past and has continued up until now). So, the correct usage is ‘has finished’.
Option ‘d’ is No improvement. We will choose this option if the given word ‘finished’ doesn’t need any replacement.
 Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct option.

Note: In this sentence, the usage of ‘everybody’ implies singular pronouns. Singular pronouns use ‘has’, instead of ‘have (used with plural pronouns).