Question

shankar ___ ( play ) when we went to his house



fill it with correct form verb
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Answer 1

Shankar was playing when we went to his house.

Answer 2

This blank can be filled with the word 'was playing'.

So, correct sentence will be:-

Shankar was playing when we went to his house.

In the given sentence, the second part is in past tense as went is used there.

We can detect whether the sentence is in present, past or future by looking the sentence structure.

Here, formation of first sentence will be according to past continuous tense.

Hence, was playing will be used which denotes the action was continuous in past.