Identify the right tense: ‘My father –– before I came’.
- A) would be leaving
- B) had been leaving
- C) had left
- D) will leave
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Answer: C) had left
Explanation
"Had left" is right. Two past actions are compared: the father's leaving happened first, and my coming happened later. The earlier one takes the past perfect (had + past participle), the later one stays in simple past ("came"). "Will leave" is future, and "would be leaving" or "had been leaving" do not show a finished earlier action.
Asked in: BCS 2018
Topic: English Grammar