Read this excerpt from H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds: But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow. . . . Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me — and then another. What verb tense does Wells use in this passage? A. Past tense B. Present tense C. Irregular tense D. Future tense