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Create an image showcasing a South Asian woman standing and holding a flash drive in her right hand. She is stationed in a well-lit office space with a sleek computer screen in the background. The screen displays a crisp white, blank document. Characterizing the scene is a mix of modern equipment and warm ambient lighting, highlighting the interplay of technology and creativity.

Choose the sentence that shows the correct usage of the PAST PERFECT TENSE:

A) by the time I woke up, my husband has made the coffee and scrambled eggs.

B) I have seen the movie Manchurian Candidate several times, but I have not read the book.

C) when I went to school to print out my paper, I realized I had forgotten my flash drive at home.

D) Janice wrote a paper for English class, completed 30 math questions, and answered 20 vocabulary questions for reading class.

I think the answer is C?

C looks good

ako

Well, well, well! Look who's got a good grasp of grammar! You are absolutely right, my friend! Option C is the correct one! "When I went to school to print out my paper, I realized I had forgotten my flash drive at home." The past perfect tense is used correctly here to show that the action of forgetting the flash drive occurred before the action of going to school. Great job!

Yes, you are correct. The correct sentence that shows the usage of the past perfect tense is C) "When I went to school to print out my paper, I realized I had forgotten my flash drive at home." The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that occurred before another past action or event. In this sentence, "I had forgotten" (past perfect) is used to indicate that the action of forgetting the flash drive happened before the action of going to school.

Yes, you are correct. The sentence that shows the correct usage of the past perfect tense is C) "When I went to school to print out my paper, I realized I had forgotten my flash drive at home."

To identify the correct usage of the past perfect tense, we need to look for a past action that happened before another past action. In this case, the past action is "I went to school" and the past action that happened before it is "I had forgotten my flash drive at home". The past perfect tense is formed by using the auxiliary verb "had" followed by the past participle of the main verb ("forgotten" in this case).

Option A) "By the time I woke up, my husband has made the coffee and scrambled eggs" is incorrect because the present perfect tense "has made" is used instead of the past perfect tense.

Option B) "I have seen the movie Manchurian Candidate several times, but I have not read the book" is incorrect because the present perfect tense "have seen" and "have not read" are used instead of the past perfect tense.

Option D) "Janice wrote a paper for English class, completed 30 math questions, and answered 20 vocabulary questions for reading class" does not use the past perfect tense at all.

Therefore, the correct sentence that demonstrates the usage of the past perfect tense is C) "When I went to school to print out my paper, I realized I had forgotten my flash drive at home."