Question

2 Points

Read this excerpt from the transcript of Orson Welles's radio broadcast of
The War of the Worlds.
Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow
like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another one,
hand another one. They look like tentacles to me.
Welles uses the
verb tense in this passage,
A. conditional
B. future
c. past
D. present

Answer 1

D. Present.

Step-by-step explanation:

The radio broadcast of Orson Welles goes as "Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another one, hand another one. They look like tentacles to me." This is based on the story War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. The story revolves around the scientific alien invasion of earth and the havoc it created.

The tense form of the given broadcast can be taken as the present verb tense. This is evidenced by the words "something's wriggling [. . . ] Now it's another one" and "They look like tentacles to me". The words "something's wriggling", "now" and "look" all are in the present tense.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.