Question

The past perfect tense usually follows the construction:
A. had+ (past participle)
B. had+ been + (past participle)
C. had been+ verb's present participle (root+ -ing)
D. None of the above

Answer 1

Hint:The past perfect tense is used to refer to the incidence of past that has already happened before another incident. Hence, in the above question, we have to find out the correct formation of the past perfect tense.

Complete answer:
Option A, had+ (past participle) is the correct answer. The past perfect tense in English is generally composed of two parts: the past form of the verb 'have' (had) + past form of the main verb (past participle).
For example, Jean had gone before Lea arrived in the office.
Here the sentence ' Jean had gone' shows the past perfect tense as this even has taken place before another event. Therefore here, had+ past participle of go(gone) is used.
Option B had+ been + (past participle) is an incorrect answer because the addition of 'been' converts the sentence to passive form here.
Option C had been+ the verb's present participle (root + -ing), is an incorrect option because it indicates a past perfect continuous tense. The past perfect continuous tense shows an event that started in the past and continued up to some point in the past itself. For example Thomas wanted to sit down as he had been standing all day at work today.
Option D (None of the above) is incorrect because Option A is the correct answer.

Note:
Option A is the correct answer as it shows the correct construction of the last perfect tense. The past perfect tense is generally used to describe the event which has taken place before another one. For example, The patient had died before the doctor came. Herein, Event A is ' the patient had died ' and Event B is 'the doctor came'. As we can figure out from the sentence that Event A took place before Event B, therefore, past perfect tense is used to describe Event A. The past perfect tense construction is: had + past participle (third form of the verb)
For example, I had never seen such a beautiful beach before.
Seen is the past participle (third form) of the verb 'see'.