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07 Jan 2022, 09:00
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After it had stopped raining, we will dry off the car.
A. it had stopped
B. it will be stopping
C. it stops
D. it was stopping
E. it stopped
A. it had stopped
B. it will be stopping
C. it stops
D. it was stopping
E. it stopped
16 Jan 2022, 09:00
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The underlined passage uses the past perfect tense, which applies to past actions that terminated in the past. In the context of this sentence, the past perfect makes no sense, because the sentence clearly implies that the drying will occur in the future after the ongoing rain stops; the past tenses in A, D, and E, therefore, cannot be right. B and C are the only sensible choices in the chronology of the sentence. Of the two, C is the superior choice, because “After it stops raining, we will dry off the car” clearly conveys the intended meaning of the sentence, and because “After it stops raining” is more idiomatic than B, “After it will be stopping raining.” Idiomatic expression errors will be discussed later, but the basic principle is that any verb form as awkward as “it will be stopping raining” is almost certainly not the right answer.
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