Civil Service Exam Reviewer · Grammar · easy

Choose the word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence: "By the time we arrived, the movie already started."

1. have
2. has
3. had
4. having

Answer

C. had

Solution

An action completed before another past action uses the past perfect: "had started."

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