Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another. They look like tenta
cles to me. -Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, 1938
What verb tense does Orson Welles use in the radio broadcast War of the Worlds?
A. present
B. perfect
C. past
D. future
A verbal tense is the grammatical class that refers to time. Verbal tenses are basically classified into three types: present, past and future.
In this excerpt, we can perceive that the verb tense is the present in this passage "... Now it's another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me." The word "now" states that something is happening right now. With this, we can conclude that the verbal tense Orson Welles uses in the radio broadcast War of the Worlds is the "Present".
I’m pretty sure the correct answer is D because the poem is saying to love one another and to be at peace it couldn’t be A because they author never mentions anything there waiting for or wanting