The assailants while fleeing _______ a large number of people. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.

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Have slay

Have slain

Has slain

Has slay

answer is B.

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The correct word is ‘have slain’.
The tense of a sentence defines a time, whether it is now (present), then (past), or in the future (future). The tense is most strongly associated with the verb of a phrase. The given sentence requires a verb form of the appropriate tense; it speaks about "the assailants" who performed two simultaneous actions, "while fleeing" and "slaying people," and 'have slain" is the most appropriate option, as the sentence is in the present perfect tense, of the form have + past participle (slain). Option 2 is correct because this tense refers to an action that began in the past and ended in the present.
Because the present perfect tense has the form have + past participle rather than have + infinitive (without to), option 1 is incorrect.
'Has' is used for the second person singular point of view, 'she has, he has, it has,' and not for the third person plural, the assailants are the third person point of view, as they are not a part of the dialogue but are mentioned, thus option 3 is incorrect.
Option 4 is similarly incorrect; 'slay' is not linked with 'has'; instead, 'slay' is used alone, in the simple present tense, and 'has' is paired with the past participle of 'slay', 'slain'.

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