Question 68
TensesChoose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap(s): The chemistry teacher seized the girl's comic........during the laboratory work.
- A.which she had been reading
- B.which she has been reading
- C.which she had read
- D.which she is reading
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: A (which she had been reading)
Explanation
The reading was going on up to the moment it was seized in the past, so the past perfect continuous 'had been reading' is right.