Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct option to fill in the blank in the following sentence.

It started raining while we ________ tennis.

  1. are playing

  2. were playing

  3. had played

  4. had been playing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The given sentence refers to the past tense. Past Continuous is used to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually in the Simple Past. Here the interruption is 'started raining' which is in simple past. The longer action then has to be in past continuous, which is given in option 2.  

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