Question

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

Answer 1

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.