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What is the tense of the underlined verb in the sentence?

Dante said, "My father has shown me pictures from his old college yearbooks."
a. past
b. future perfect
c. present perfect
d. past perfect

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The tense of "has shown" in the sentence is past perfect.

Answer: d. past perfect
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this is NOT mathematics, but I'll answer anyways: it's past perfect, because he's showing you photos of his college years. It's most likely he's not in college at the time, and a perfect tense is when something occurs earlier than the considered time.
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