Multiple choice

Choose the correct answer

  1. He looked tired, because he had travelled all day

  2. He looked tired, because he had been travelling all day

  3. He looked tired, because he had travelling all day
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The past perfect continuous tense ("had been travelling") is used to show that an action started in the past and continued up until another time in the past, emphasizing the duration of the activity that caused the visible result. Option A is grammatically possible but less natural than B for emphasizing the continuous nature of the journey, and C is grammatically incorrect.

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