Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct word(s) from the options given below.

My private diary _____, was lost and I could not record the events of the week.

  1. in which I was writing something

  2. which I was writing

  3. that I was writing in

  4. that I had been writing in
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The past perfect continuous tense is required here to show an action that was ongoing up to a point in the past. That I had been writing in correctly completes the relative clause.

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