Question

When Kovid died he and Nisha ___________ married for six years .Correct the grammatically sentence.​

Answer 1

When Kovid died he and Nisha had been married for six years .

• In the given sentence, the first part is in the simple past tense, therefore, we need to use the past perfect tense for the second part of the sentence.

• It is used to show that one action took place in the past and continued up to a certain time in the past itself( the action was completed).

• The past perfect tense has been used in the form:

had+ been+ V3 ( past participle form of a verb).

Answer 2

Here is the correct answer along with its explanation:

When Kovid died he and Nisha had been married for six years.

Explanation

The tense of the given sentence was Past Perfect.  Past Perfect Tense is used to refer to an action that happened before another action in the past. In this sentence 'they' ‘had been married’ happened before Kovid died. There were two actions. Nisha and Kovid's marriage happened first; Kovid's death happened afterwards. So, we used the past perfect.