Question

Fill in with correct tense form:

I _______ (play) basketball, when my

mom came from the office.​

Answer 1

The correct tense form can be filled as follows:

I was playing basketball, when my mom came from the office.

What is the past continuous tense?

• In English grammar, we use the past continuous tense to depict an action in the past that continued to occur at a certain reference point.
• In the sentence above, as the person played basketball in the past and continued to play it until his mother came, hence past continuous tense of the verb will be used.