Multiple choice

Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.

Once when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was speaking to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stop to ask them a question.

  1. to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to ask them a question

  2. to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, they stopped to ask them a question

  3. to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to asked them a question

  4. to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to ask him a question

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Explanation

The use of 'stopped' (second form of the verb) rectifies the error. Now the tense of the underlined portion is in agreement with the portion which is not underlined.