Which sentence contains a present perfect tense?

• A. We have put aside our work for today.
• B. It's raining hard.
• C. The club meeting will be in an hour.
• D. The judges chose Mawmaw the best dog in the show.

Answer: (A)

Recognizing the present perfect tense means spotting have or has followed by a past participle. This tense connects a past action to the present, often with no exact time given or with relevance to now.

In the sentence with have put aside our work for today, the verb form have plus the past participle put shows the present perfect. It indicates that the action of putting aside work happened at some point up to now and relates to today.

The other sentences don’t use this structure: It's raining hard uses the present continuous (is + -ing) to describe something happening right now; The club meeting will be in an hour uses will to express a future event; The judges chose Mawmaw the best dog uses the simple past (chose), describing a completed action at a definite past time.