Read this excerpt from H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds: But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow. . . . Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me — and then another. What verb tense does Wells use in this passage? A. Past tense B. Present tense C. Irregular tense D. Future tense

Respuesta :

The verb tense used in the passage is A. Past tense.

The past tense is used to refer to events that happened in the past and also finished in the past. The excerpt has most of the verbs in the past tense forms. For example, "saw" is the past tense of the verb "see", "coiled" is the past tense of the verb "coil" and "wriggled" is the past form of the verb "wriggle".

Answer:

A. Past tense.

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