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 from the text leads you to believe that this passage uses the present tense?
A. "gray snake"
B. "another one"
C. "Good heavens"
D. "something's wriggling"

Question

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 from the text leads you to believe that this passage uses the present tense?
 		A.	"gray snake"
 		B.	"another one"
 		C.	"Good heavens"
 		D.	"something's wriggling"

jacob902 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

The present tense is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in present time. So therefore, the answer to your question is D.	"something's wriggling" . Do you understand why that is the correct answer?