A test question

Today,all over the world,many young people in devoloping countries _______ their homes to get a good education at universities abroad.

A)leave
B)are left
C)left
D)have left
E)had left

The answer is B. i know the sentence is present tense but why not A or D,and what is the am/is/are+Past participle?
thanks

Welcome to the forum. :hi:

The correct answer is definitely not B.

Where did you find this question? If it really said B is the answer, it's wrong, plus the question contains incorrect spacing around the punctuation (there should be a space after each comma).

Punctuation mistakes are my carelessness, i wrote the question, didn't copy paste sorry
İt's from one of my brother's worksheets, i was looking them and couldn't do it so i wanted to learn.
Now i know it's wrong,thank you

You can use "are left" this way:

I ate five cookies and five are left.

anarkinarsil said:

Punctuation mistakes are my carelessness, i wrote the question, didn't copy paste sorry
İt's from one of my brother's worksheets, i was looking them and couldn't do it so i wanted to learn.
Now i know it's wrong,thank you

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Say:

The punctuation mistakes are my fault. I typed the question. I didn't copy and paste. Sorry! It's from one of my brother's worksheets. I was looking at them, and I couldn't do it, so I wanted to learn. Now I know it's wrong. Thank you!

Tarheel said:

You can use "are left" this way:

I ate five cookies and five are left.

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Thanks for information. Has this same meaning with 'I ate five cookies and five have left' like present perfect?

No. The word "left" is not used as a verb in that sentence. It (the sentence) means the same as "Five are remaining" or "Five are still there".

Oh,i get it now. Thank you very much.

anarkinarsil said:

Oh,i get it now. Thank you very much.

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Remember to put a space after each comma and to capitalize the word I.

anarkinarsil said:

Today,all over the world,many young people in developing countries _______ their homes to get a good education at universities abroad.

A)leave
B)are left
C)left
D)have left
E)had left

The answer is B. i know the sentence is present tense but why not A or D,and what is the am/is/are+Past participle?
thanks

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It is strange that the present continuous tense is not an option here. The sentence refers to a temporary activity which is still in progress.

anarkinarsil said:

Today,all over the world,many young people in devoloping countries _______ their homes to get a good education at universities abroad.

A)leave
B)are left
C)left
D)have left
E)had left

The answer is B. i know the sentence is present tense but why not A or D,and what is the am/is/are+Past participle?
thanks

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B) is incorrect. In my opinion, A) is the best answer.