My sister sat down, opened the book and read several pages to us.
Where the story took place. when the story happened.
Ok I’m honing to take a good guess and say it’s D
In most short films or stories olny very little is described about the main characters and is usally story or theme is identifiable. All we see the presented situation which we can olny infer from. But it films backstory and povs are more shown
If the underlined word is only 'barking', then the correct answer is B) present participle, because those are used to form present progressive tense, as is the case here.
A) would be 'barked'.
C) would be 'bark/barks'.
D) would be 'barked', the same as A.