Question

My uncle was seventy when he -(die)

Answer 1

Answer:

My uncle was seventy when he died

Answer 2

Here is the correct answer:

My uncle was seventy when he died.

Explanation

Simple Past Tense is used to :

a)  talk about actions which occurred at regular intervals in the past.  

e.g. Last year I drove to Ambala once a month.

b) to talk about situations which existed for a period of time in the past.  

e.g. Thousands of years ago humans lived in caves.

c)  Talk about non-continuous actions which occurred at a definite time in the past.

e.g. India launched Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013.