Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence: 'Sivamani is working as an electrician for the past 22 years.'

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The sentence talks about an action that started in the past and is still continuing in the present. The correct tense to express this is the present perfect continuous tense, which is formed as 'has been working' for singular third-person subjects like 'Sivamani'.

Option 1 'had been worked' is incorrect because 'had been' is past perfect continuous, and 'worked' is a past participle used incorrectly here.
Option 3 'have been working' is incorrect because 'have' is used with plural subjects or 'I/you/we'.
Option 4 'would work' is incorrect because it indicates a conditional or future-in-the-past action, not a continuous action from the past to present.

Hence, the correct substitution is 'has been working'.

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