Question

The boy ___ the ball on me while he ____ in the garden

Answer 1

The boy throws the ball on me while he is playing in the garden

Answer 2

The boy threw the ball on me while he was playing in the garden.

Explanation:

• Threw is the past tense of the word throw. As this sentence is used to report the incident which took place in the past so, the past tense of throw is used.

• For the next blank, we have used was playing as at the time of this incident the boy was in action which was that "he was playing".

• Here, its past tense is not used because the action of the boy was not finished.