Question

The Children ________ in the garden when it started raining. (Play)

Answer 1

Answer:

playing

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The answer will be: The Children were playing in the garden when it started raining.

• The suitable set of words to be selected for filling in the blank will be 'were playing'.
• The verb 'play' has been transformed according to suitable tenses to make the sentence grammatically correct.
• The phrase 'were playing' is an example of Past Continuous Tense.
• The tense is in Positive form.
• To describe an incident that happened in the past along with describing another incident that happened parallelly, the past continuous tense is used.

Hence, the correct words to be filled in the blank in the given sentence will be: The Children were playing in the garden when it started raining.

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