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Which corrects the shift in tense in this sentence? When they had been choosing to go to the dude ranch, they did not know how far a drive it was from the airport. A. are choosing B. have chosen C. chose D. chosen

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D) Chose

but the other duude explains it better

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"D. chose" should take the place of "been choosing" since this happened in the past, so there needs to be a past-tense verb in clarify the time of the action.
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