The following question contains a sentence with one blank only. Below are given six words as answer choices. You have to choose an option with choices which can make the sentence complete.
The past years have not seen enough resource _______ for infrastructure maintenance and upkeep.
A. Allocated
B. Allocate
C. Allocation
D. Had allocated
E. Have allocated
F. Been allocated
Both the simple past tense verb 'allocated' and the noun 'allocation' can be grammatically correct here.
None of the other options are grammatically correct.
The only options that can make the sentence meaningful are A and C.
Therefore, the correct answer is option 5.