Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word:

Mike and Jack ____ here five months ago. They _ in this city for five months.

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Came / have been

Have come / have been

Come / were

Has come / has been

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Detailed Solution

The most important thing to remember when determining the tenses in a sentence is that they are arranged in the order Past --> Present --> Future, just like in real life. As a result, it is critical to determine the order in which each action occurs.
Reading the first sentence of the question, we can deduce that Mike and Jack first moved to the city in the past (as indicated by the word "ago"), so we will use the past tense — "came."
Thus, the second sentence could mean that after they arrived, they either lived (past tense - "were") in that city for 5 months or that they are still living there (present perfect progressive - "have been").

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