Question

they______(are,were)playing in the park yesterday​

Answer 1

Answer:

they WERE playing in the park yesterday, it is were, because,in sentence we have given that children were playing yesterday,so in past we will use WERE.

Answer 2

They were playing in the park yesterday.

• The given sentence is a kind of verbal ability question where there will be a sentence with missing words, and we are required to complete the sentence with the most appropriate word or phrase from the given options

• In the above sentence "were" is the most appropriate form of a word.

• "Were" is an auxiliary verb also known as a helping verb which helps the main verb to show the number and person of its subject.

• "Were" is the most appropriate word because the sentence demand past plural tense "were" is used for the plural pronoun.

• "are" is an incorrect option because the sentence demands past tense (yesterday) and are is a present tense form of a verb.

Hence, They were playing in the park yesterday. is the correct sentence.

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