Question

Read the following passage:

Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me.

- Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, 1938

What evidence in the passage leads you to believe that Welles is using the present tense?

A. "like"
B. "me"
C. "one"
D. "look"

Answer 1

Look is a word that is in present tense so the answer would be D. "Look"

Answer 2

that would be the verb " look "...it is present tense