Question

While my mother ______ (clean ) the room , my father _______ (read) a news paper
Fill in the blanks with appropriate past tense or past continuous tense

Answer 1

Answer:

While my mother was cleaning the room, My father was reading a newspaper.

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Answer 2

While my mother was cleaning the room, my father read a newspaper.

• The sentence has to be completed using the past and past continuous tenses and so, 'was cleaning' and 'read' are the relevant options.
• The sentence means that while the mother continued cleaning the room, the father read the newspaper.
• The past form of 'read' is 'read' but is pronounced differently.
• The process of cleaning was being continued in the past and so, the 'was' and 'ing' form is used.