Mark the CORRECT alternative.
a) In "The official Canadian policy of multiculturalism has been updated twice", the verb form indicates
something that started in the past and continues in the present.
b) Comparing the use of verbs in "The province of Quebec has always asserted a distinct identity" and
"Since the referendum, tensions have cooled a bit", we can say that they both talk
that happened at an unspecified time in the past.
both talk abo
about something
c) The affixes in the words "ethnicity", "isolation", "unsafe" and "harassment" change verbs to nouns.
d) In the fragments "when trying to speak", "there was a referendum [...] concerning separation",
"education, housing and employment" and "concerned with preserving its own history", the suffix
-ing indicates gerund in all the cases.
e) In "concerning separation" and "concerned with preserving", the underlined words have different
grammar functions and mean "about" and "interested (in)", respectively.