Pick the correct form: While she ____ , the phone rang.
ACook at the moment
BWas cooking
CCooks at the moment
DHas cooked today
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Was cooking
1. Two past events: one was ongoing when the other happened.
2. Past Continuous describes the ongoing action.
3. Form: was/were + verb-ing.
4. So 'was cooking' fits.
_Source: SSC Stenographer Study Material, Chapter on Tenses (jkchrome.com, Mistral OCR'd PDF), section on Past Continuous_
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