Question

When we met in Lucknow, she _____ (has been/ had been) studying in city college for 2 years.

Answer 1

had been..

this is the past tense sentence ..hope its helpful..

Answer 2

The completed sentence is as follows:

When we met in Lucknow, she had been studying in a city college for 2 years.

Past tense:

• The past tense describes things that have already happened.
• In order to create the past tense in English, one must take the word's present tense and add the suffix -ed.
• For instance, you may make the past tense of the verb "walk" by adding the suffix "-ed."
• The verb tense used to discuss previous events is known as the past tense in grammar.
• The word "joined" is used in the past tense when you say, "I joined the circus."
• When someone uses the past tense in writing or speaking, they're describing an earlier event, whether it occurred yesterday or ten years ago.

Had been:

• The past perfect continuous tense, commonly referred to as the past perfect progressive tense, describes a previous activity that persisted up until a later point in the past.
• The present participle of the verb (root + -ing) is combined with had been to form the past perfect continuous tense.

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