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I'm preparing for exam. And there's an interesting question for which I don't know the correct answer.
Then the bottles ... into boxes of twenty four.
A) are packed
B) packed
C) will packed
D) are been packed
C is not correct. It should be sth like 'will be packed'. B is not correct because of lack of verb to be. There're 2 options left. Both in Present tense. And I don't know which one should I choose. Thanks for any advice!
There is no valid English tense which is {form of to be} + {past participle} + {another past participle}.
So are been packed is wrong.
It depends on the context of your previous sentences of the overall action preformed. If someone performing packing of the bottles then use D):
Then the bottles are been packed into boxes of twenty four
NOTE: As @WS2 pointed out, this would not make grammatically correct structure. It would be more like this to be grammatically correct:
The bottles have been packed into boxes of twenty four
...and therefore is not an option to use.
That leaves only one option A:
Then the bottles are packed into boxes of twenty four
