Question

. Jimmy ________ out of breath because he ___________. a. had been / was running b. was / was running c. was / had been running d. had been / had been running

Answer 1

C.was/had been running

Answer 2

The correct option would be:

c. Jimmy was out of breath because he had been running.

This option correctly uses the past continuous tense ("was running") to describe the ongoing action and the past perfect tense ("had been running") to indicate that the action had started before a certain point in the past and continued up until that point.