Question

Few students who__playing foot ball missed the class
(Would be/could be/had/were)

Answer 1

Answer: Few students who were playing football missed the class

Answer 2

The answer will be that a Few students who d) were playing football missed the class.

• The sentence is an example of a Past Continuous Tense.
• Tenses are broadly categorized into three different types; Present Tense, Past Tense, and Future Tense.
• Under Past Tense there are three sub-categories.
• The past continuous tense helps describe an incident that was happening sometime around the past.
• The narration of the past incident is done with the continuity of the event.
• Therefore, among the given set of options, the one that indicates the past continuous form of the verb is option d). were.

Hence, the correct option to be filled in the blank will be Few students who d). were playing football missed the class.

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