Question

My mother .................. in this house for ten years.

• A. was living
• B. had been living
• C. has been living
• D. had lived

Answer 1

Answer:

C. has been living

The sentence is:
"My mother __________ in this house for ten years."

• The phrase "for ten years" indicates an action that started in the past and is still continuing now.

• For this, we use the present perfect continuous tense.

Structure:

has/have + been + verb(-ing)

So:
👉 My mother has been living in this house for ten years.

Why others are wrong:

• was living → past continuous (doesn’t show duration up to now)

• had been living → past perfect continuous (used when referring to another past event)

• had lived → past perfect (completed action in the past)