5. The cat ___________________ (has/have + hide) under the bed many times lately.

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The task presents a sentence completion in a short answer format and asks for the correct verb form.

First, identify the subject and the tense required by the phrase "many times lately". The subject is singular: "The cat". The appropriate tense for actions that occurred repeatedly up to now is the present perfect. This tense uses the auxiliary verb has (for third-person singular) or have for other subjects, followed by the past participle of the main verb.

Next, determine the correct past participle of the verb "hide". The base form is hide, the past tense is hid, and the past participle is hidden. In the present perfect, we must use the past participle, so the correct form is "hidden".

Putting it together, the sentence should read: "The cat has hidden under the bed many times lately." This construction expresses repeated occurrences up to the present moment with the location clearly stated.

Why the other potential forms would be incorrect:
- If we used "has hide", that would be using the base form after the auxiliary, which is not grammatical in English for present perfect.
- If we used "have hidden" with a singular subject like "The cat", that would disagree in subject-verb agreement, since "have" contracts to match plural subjects; for singular third person, the correct auxiliary is "has".
- Any change of the past participle to something other than "hidden" (such as "hide" or "hid") would not be correct for forming the present perfect tense in this sentence.

Additionally, the adverb "lately" aligns well with the present perfect, signaling actions that occurred recently or repeatedly up to now.

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