Question

Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. Gramps had been coaching at the local college when he quit and went to work at the bank. What is the tense of the underlined verb?

(A)simple past
(B)past perfect 
(C)past progressive
(D)past perfect progressive

Answer 1

the answer i assume would be "A" i'm guessing because the underlined verb would be "Coaching" hope this helps.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the tense of the underlined verb is past perfect progressive. That is, the correct option would be D.

The past perfect progressive, also known as past perfect continous, is a verb tense which is used to show that an action started in the past and continued up to another point in the past. The past perfect progressive is formed by using had + been+ present participle.