Directions: Choose the word or phrase that best fills the blank in the given sentence. The train had left ______.
Question and options
Directions: Choose the word or phrase that best fills the blank in the given sentence.
The train had left ______.
- when I reach the station
- as I would reach the station
- whether I would have reached the station
- before I reached the station
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D - before I reached the station
The past perfect "had left" marks the earlier of two past actions, so the later action takes the simple past: the train had left before I reached the station. "When I reach" mixes in the present tense, and the clauses with "would" or "whether" do not make a sensible sequence of past events.
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