The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. He has been / excused by the teacher / by the time a formal complaint / for bullying was made.

Explanation

The erroneous part of the given sentence is: He has been Key Points Replace " has " with " had " to correct the sentence. As a main verb, we use " has " for the present tense and " had " for the past tense. The given sentence tells that when a formal bullying complaint was submitted, the instructor had already excused him. We use " has + been + v3 " to form the passive form of the present perfect tense. Present perfect tense : An action that happened in the past that is directly related to the present, such as actions that are still continuing or that indicate a change over time. We use " had + been + v3 " to form the passive form of the past perfect tense. Past perfect tense : R efers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. So, it is clear that according to the meaning of the given sentence, Past perfect tense should be used. Therefore, the correct answer is option 4 , which contains an error in it. Corrected sentence:He had been excused by the teacher by the time a formal complaint for bullying was made.