Question

Use the past perfect continuous tense form of the verb in the following sentence:
 She ________ for the company for over five years when the company folded up.
a. was working
b. had been working
c. is working
d. worked

Answer 1

Hint:The options should be carefully read after going through the sentence in question. The question requires the student to use past perfect continuous tense, thus the option that uses past perfect continuous tense should be used.

Complete answer: A verb is a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. The verb is the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
In the given question, we have to find out which of the given options includes the answer in
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'was working', refers to ‘past continuous tense’.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as we need the answer to be in the past perfect continuous tense.
Option (b.), ‘had been working', refers to ‘past perfect continuous tense’.
Therefore, option (b.) is correct as the question requires us to use past perfect continuous tense.
Option (c.), ‘is working', refers to ‘present continuous tense’.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as we need the answer to be in the past perfect continuous tense.
Option (d.), ‘worked', refers to ‘simple past tense’.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as we need the answer to be in the past perfect continuous tense.
Therefore, option (b) Is the correct answer.

Note: Verbs have five forms namely, (i) Base Form, (ii) Present Tense Form, (iii) Past Tense, (iv) Present Participle and (v) Past Participle.