Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the best option from the given choices.

Hardly had he arrived when the house caught fire and everything __________.

  1. was being reduced to ashes

  2. was reducing to ashes

  3. was getting reduced to ashes

  4. was reduced to ashes

  5. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Avoid unnecessary shifts in the verb usage. The first action is in the past perfect tense. So, the second should also be in the same tense to support parallelism.

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