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    Question

    Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

    They had been dancing / for an hour / when our dance

    teacher / had arrived.
    A when our dance teacher Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B They had been dancing Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C for an hour Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D had arrived Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The sentence uses the past perfect continuous tense ("had been dancing") to describe an action that was ongoing in the past. To indicate a simple past action that occurred afterward, the correct tense is the simple past ("arrived") rather than the past perfect ("had arrived"). The past perfect tense is unnecessary here because the action of the teacher arriving is not an action completed before another past action but rather a concurrent or subsequent event.

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