But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow. . . . Then something resembling a little grey snake, about t
he thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me — and then another. This passage uses which verb tense? A. Future B. Conditional C. Past D. Present
Explanation: The tense of a verb shows the time when an action or condition occurred. There are three basic tenses: past, present, and future. They show whether a simple action or condition occurred, occurs, or will occur in the past, present, or future. The given passage uses past tense (corresponding to option C), as we can see in the conjugation of the verbs ("saw," "coiled," and "wriggled").
