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.
Thanks best regards
Antoine Ghannoum
Tenses
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Re: Tenses
Yes, you surmise correctly!