Tenses

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toedrika
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Tenses

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Dear Professor

What is the correct tense in the second sentence?

* She was fluent in English. She studied / had been studying it for five years.

I think "had been studying" because we have "for" and the first sentence is in the past simple.

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Re: Tenses

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Yes, you surmise correctly!
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