7. The history teacher showed her students footage taken from wartime newsreels. The films gave them a vivid sense of what it (_______) like at the time. * A. has been B. had been C. have been
Answer (1)
The films gave them a vivid sense of what it had been like at the time.This uses past perfect because it refers to a time further back than the past described (the war footage being shown). “Had been” shows that the experience being described happened before the students saw the films.
