What is the tense of the underlined verb?

this morning i brought my family blackberries from the bushes near our house.

a.
past perfect

b.
present

c.
past

d.
future

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

explanation:

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.