Read the paragraph. my brother and i pulled into the driveway. i peered up and thought it was suspicious that every shade in the house was drawn. the house had been unusually dark for early evening. as my brother unlocked the front door, i heard some hushed whispers. suddenly, about ten of my friends and my parents jumped out and yelled, “surprise! ” which is the best replacement for the underlined sentence? the house was unusually dark for early evening. the house will be unusually dark for early evening. the house has been unusually dark for early evening. the house was being unusually dark for early evening.

The answer to your question would be that the best replacement for the underlined sentence is the following one: The house was unusually dark for early evening.

In the passage above, someone is narrating the moment in which he was thrown a surprise birthday party. The whole story is in the past simple tense, so it will be better for the sentence in question to be also in that verb tense. What is more, the state of being dark is not something that can be interrupted by another action so as to use the past perfect tense. In addition to this, the PP "for early evening" is specifying that the state of darkness only refers to that period of time (early evening), it is not something that has been happening throughout the whole day so as to justify the use of the past perfect tense.

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