fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options :
These six employees ........ absent from work since new year’s day.

mccben4

10 years ago

The question is wrongly composed:

i chosed the correct option but it was marked that i missed it and when i checked it in the explanations i discovered i was correct

Deepthinker581

4 years ago

He has been "singular"
There have been "plural
And it is use for a continuous sentence like this
These six employees have been absent
Meaning they are still absent up till date
And this is a reported speech
I stand to be corrected