Question

He had been a fool to come to the cottage choose tense option
a) simple past tense b) past perfect continous tense c) past perfect tense d) present perfect tense​

Answer 1

The sentence is in the past perfect tense.

What is the past perfect tense?

• In the English language, past perfect tense can be described as a type of tense which describes an event that occurred before some point in the past.
• The formula for past perfect tense is subject + had + verb (past participle) + object.

Hence, by considering the formula for past perfect tense, we know that the sentence ' He had been a fool to come to the cottage' is in the past perfect tense.

Answer 2

Answer:

The given sentence is an example of Past Perfect Tense.

Explanation :

• The Past Perfect Tense expresses an action complete before another past action.

• Example : He left after I had gone away.

• Here in the given sentence it's clear that something continued upto a past moment : How long had you been in London?

• Structure of past perfect tense ( affirmative ) : Subject + auxiliary verb ' had' + past participle form of main verb + object : My father had sent me money before he received my letter. Here 'he received my letter' has been written in Simple Past Tense.

• Past participle form of verb 'be' is 'been'.