Select the option which fits appropriately in the blank:We _ (visit) the lake many times before, but we enjoyed ourselves the most this time.
Correct answer: D. Had visited
- A. Visit
- B. Have visited
- C. Visited
- D. Had visited
Explanation
You need to use the perfect tenses when talking about a past event that continues to the time being described. Actually, the present tense is used more for factual statements. It has to be the past tense when the time in the past is specified.
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