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joham

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The commitee has anticipated the problems that _____ in the road construction project.
A. arise B. will arise C. arose D. have arisen

Do all B, C and D work for this sentence with respective contexts?
(For example, when both the speaker and listener know the problems that have arose, arose can be used)

Thank you in advance.
 

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Certainly my first thought was the future "will arise" but I do think it's possible for "have arisen" when the problems are very, very (just discovered) recent.

I can't make "arose" work with "have anticipated."
 

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"arose" would be correct if we had "had anticipated".

For the same reason "have arisen" can't work either as there is a time difference from the anticipation till the appearance of the problems. Again, "had anticipated" would be required.
 
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