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About the sentence: “She had been working on the project...

About the sentence:


“She had been working on the project before the manager arrived.”


Choose the alternative with the right tense–aspect combination used in the verb phrase “had been working”:


A

Past perfect progressive, indicating a continuous action that was in progress and led up to another past event.


B

Future perfect, expressing an action to be completed before another future event.


C

Past continuous, emphasizing simultaneity between two past events.


D

Present perfect, showing a past action with present relevance.


E

Simple past, expressing a completed action prior to another past action.