ChhyoruWhen the telephone rang,I_________(slept/has slept/was sleeping)
The correct answer is was sleeping.
Reason:
The reason "I was sleeping" is the appropriate choice is because the past continuous tense ("was sleeping") is used to describe an action that was ongoing at a specific point in the past, especially when another action (in this case, the telephone ringing) interrupts it. The past continuous tense is formed by combining the past tense of the verb "to be" (in this case, "was") with the present participle of the main verb ("sleeping"). This construction conveys the idea that at the time the telephone rang, the person was already in the state of sleeping
Last updated: 2024-01-27
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