Question

as usual he was absorbed in reading(state its tence)

Answer 1

It is in past tense because in sentence WAS is used.....

Answer 2

The answer is given below :

Question : As usual he was absorbed in reading. (State its Tense)

We know that, there are three Tenses :
1. Present Tense
2. Past Tense
3. Future Tense

We know that, 'was' is the past form of 'be' and 'absorbed' is the past participle form of 'absorb'.

Hence, it is clear that the given sentence is in 'Past Indefinite Tense'.

Let me tell you a few about Tenses.

Each Tense has four types :

i) Indefinite
ii) Continuous
iii) Perfect
iv) Perfect Continuous

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