Select every option that correctly completes the sentence "The mayor has ____ office since 2019."

الشرح

Hold builds its past by vowel change, giving held, and that single form works in both slots: the mayor held office in 2019 and the mayor has held office since then use one and the same verb shape. Holded regularises a verb that never took -ed, holden is an archaic leftover, and the base form cannot follow has in a perfect.