. When we got to Terminal 2, the flight from London ............. a) had already landed b) had already been landing c) already landed
Question
. When we got to Terminal 2, the flight from London ............. a) had already landed b) had already been landing c) already landed
Solution
The correct answer is a) had already landed.
This is because the action of the plane landing happened before another action in the past (when we got to Terminal 2). In English, we use the past perfect (had + past participle) to talk about something that happened before another action in the past.
Option b) is incorrect because "had already been landing" is in the past perfect continuous tense, which is used to show that an action started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. This doesn't fit with the context of the sentence, as the plane's landing is a single, completed action, not a continuous one.
Option c) is incorrect because "already landed" is in the simple past tense, which is used to talk about completed actions in the past. However, in this sentence, we need to show that the plane's landing happened before we got to Terminal 2, so we need to use the past perfect tense.
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