dipakavailable wrote:
Even after reading all replies, i don't understand why being is wrong in choice C. I assume it is an event in continuity and written in passive voice. Can some expert kindly clarify.
Hi Deepak, the crux of sentence, in option Cis:
at the end of the nineteenth century, there had been less than 1 percent of homes with electricity
So, option C usespast perfect tense (had been . This is an incorrect usage.Past perfect tense is used to establish atime-sequence between two events that happened
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