y the time I ____________ a promotion, I had worked at the company for 5 years. 1 pointhave gottengothad gotten

To fill in the blank appropriately, we need to analyze the sentence contextually and grammatically.

1. Understanding the Context: The sentence indicates a point in time in the past when a promotion was received after working at the company for 5 years.

2. Evaluating Options:

   • "have gotten": This form suggests a present perfect tense, which is generally used for actions that have relevance to the present, but it doesn't fit well with the mention of "had worked" which indicates that the action of getting the promotion is also in the past.
   • "got": This is simple past tense, which fits the context of talking about a completed action in the past.
   • "had gotten": This is past perfect tense, which is used to describe an action that was completed before another action in the past. This could be plausible since it refers to something that happened before the other past action of having worked at the company for five years.

3. Choosing the Best Option: Given that the sentence compares two past actions (working for 5 years and receiving a promotion), the best option to maintain that past perfect structure accurately is "had gotten."

Final Answer

The correct form to fill in the blank is: "had gotten."

So the complete sentence reads: "By the time I had gotten a promotion, I had worked at the company for 5 years."