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    Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: It is high time you must change your habits.
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    Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:
    It is high time you must change your habits.

    A.

    changed your habits

    B.

    must have changed your habits

    C.

    change your habit

    D.

    will change the habit

    Correct option is A

    The correct substitution of the highlighted words is (a) changed your habits. Explanation: The expression “It is high time” is followed by a subject + past simple to show that something should already have happened.
    Using must after “high time” is incorrect because the structure itself already carries the sense of urgency/necessity. Hence, “It is high time you changed your habits” is grammatically correct.
    Grammatical rule used:
    · It’s high time + subject + past simple (to express urgency/overdue action)
    · Example: It is high time we started taking health seriously.
    · Information booster / exceptions related to grammatical topic:
    · “High time” = “अब देर हो चुकी है”—but grammar uses past tense, not because it is past time, but because it shows overdue/expected action.

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