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Which is the tense of the underlined verb?


She had been writing poetry but thought her ideas would work better as a novel.


A.

past progressive


B.

present progressive


C.

present perfect progressive


D.

past perfect progressive

Verified Answer :

The tense of the verb had been writing as
used in the sentence above is in: D. past
perfect progressive. This type of tense denotes that there is continuity
of the action that was already completed at a point in the past. This form contains
the modal “had” with an aid of “been” and a present participle of the verb
which ends with –ing.