Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the sentence. Below the sentence three possible substitutions for the underlined part are given. If one of the possible substitutions is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

It has been raining during the whole of last week.

  1. rained

  2. was raining

  3. is raining

  4. No improvement needed
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Case of past indefinite tense. There is no continuation involved here. In case of words like 'a few days ago', 'last week', 'this morning', etc we use past idefinite tense i.e. only second form of the verb.

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