Question

Use appropriate tense:

It ............... (rain) heavily for a week. The wells are overflowing.

• A. rain
• B. was raining
• C. had rained
• D. has been raining

Answer 1

Answer:

D. has been raining

• The present perfect continuous tense (has been raining) is used to describe an action that started in the past and is still continuing or has just stopped, but its effects are still visible (overflowing wells).

• Structure: has/have been + verb (-ing)