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★ Modals and Past Tenses

Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect tense to show an action that occurred before another action in the past?

A. He had been leaving by the time I got there.

B. He leaves by the time I got there.

C. He had left by the time I got there.

D. He was leaving by the time I got there.

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Which modal verb suggests a higher likelihood?

A. Might

B. Could

C. May

D. Would