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English II · Quiz 1 · 27 Oct 2024 · September 2024 term

Question 32: In the sentence ‘The black cat had been living in an old…

Question 32

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In the sentence ‘The black cat had been living in an old cat bed that one of the children had found for him’, the combination of ‘been’ and the suffix -ing added to the verb ‘live’ indicates:

  1. A

    The perfective aspect

  2. B

    The habitual aspect

  3. C

    The perfect continuous aspect

  4. D

    None of these

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  • C

    The perfect continuous aspect

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Question 32 of 40 in the IIT Madras BS English II (English 2) Quiz 1 paper sat on 27 Oct 2024, in the September 2024 term (IIT M FOUNDATION AN EXAM QDF2 27 Oct 2024). It carries 1 mark.

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