Choose the correct form: After the students had learnt, they ___ verifying.
AHave start
BAre starti
CStarted
DWill start
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Started
1. The learning is already in the past perfect.
2. The second action came after it.
3. So the more recent action takes the simple past, started.
4. The answer is started.
_Source: NCERT Class 9 English Poorvi, Unit 1 'How I Taught My Grandmother to Read'_
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