English Tense Selection Question
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6. The train ---- to drift for several hundred metres after the accident without the passengers noticing what ----.
A) would continue / happens
B) had continued / has happened
C) has continued / happened
D) continued / had happened
E) has been continuing / is happening
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Hello everyone. Let's solve this grammar question from a practice test. We need to find the correct tense combination for this sentence about a train accident.
Grammar: Tense Agreement
First, let's look at the context clues in the sentence. The sentence says the train did something after an accident occurred. This strongly suggests a past narrative.
Context: Past Events
Notice the word 'after'. The action of 'the accident' happened first, and then the train's drifting occurred. Both are in the past.
Let's analyze the timeline. We have two points in the past: the accident itself, and the drifting that followed. If we want to show that one past event happened before another past event, we use the Past Perfect for the earlier one.
The accident is what happened first, which the passengers didn't notice. So, 'what had happened' fits the second blank perfectly to denote a completed action before another past point.
Second blank: had happened (Past Perfect)
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