Question

I was being perplexed and asked why nobody had told me that I had been pointing to the wrong slide.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. About 29% of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands.

Answer 2

I was perplexed and asked why nobody had told me that I had been pointing to the wrong side.

• The sentence given here is incorrect as far as the contiguity of tense in the sentence is concerned.  
• The first part of the sentence "I was being perplexed" is in the past perfect tense, as illustrated by the words- was being.
• The second part of the sentence starts with "asked why nobody..." in the simple past tense. Since it is a more complex part than the first, it is more suitable if we change the tense of the first part to match the second.
• Changing the first part of the sentence to the simple past, we get "I was perplexed"
• The whole sentence thus becomes "I was perplexed and asked why nobody had told me that I had been pointing to the wrong side".

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