Question

ii) Most of the farmers in and around the village of peth had switched over to hybrids.
(Identify the tense)​

Answer 1

The sentence is in its past perfect tense.

• The given sentence describes the situation that has been already occurred before a certain point of time. It describes a situation that has been occurred before another situation.
• Here, "had+switched' is in its "had + past participle" form which indicates that the given sentence is in its past perfect tense.
• The past participle word in this sentence is "switched".

Answer 2

Past perfect tense

It is a tense that is used to describe actions that occurred before a certain time previously that is in the past. It is used to describe events that occurred before another event. had + past participle is the formula. It remains the same whether it is based on singular or plural.

The difference between the past perfect and the simple past is that

"The past perfect allows us to describe the sequence of events at a point in the past. It wishes to refer to an event that happened even earlier."

In the given sentence, had + switched (past participle) indicates that the sentence is past perfect tense.