Question

Fill in the blank with appropriate verb form.
The accident took place, when she ________ the road.

• A. is crossing
• B. has crossed
• C. was crossing
• D. would cross

Hint:

Use the past continuous tense (was/were + verb + ing) to describe an action that was happening at a specific time in the past.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

The sentence describes two actions that happened in the past.
The first action, The accident took place, is a short, completed action in the simple past tense.
The second action, connected by when, was an ongoing action that was interrupted by the accident.
To describe a past action that was in progress when another action occurred, we use the Past Continuous Tense (was/were + verb-ing).
The subject is she, so the correct verb form is was crossing.
The full sentence is: The accident took place, when she was crossing the road.