Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
The teacher asked her pupils ______________.

• A. where are their textbooks
• B. where their textbooks are
• C. where their textbooks were
• D. be quiet, please, listen to me
• E. why they open the text books

Answer 1

The correct option is C where their textbooks were

The correct answer is Option C.

The teacher asked the pupils about the place of their textbooks. The word WHERE is used to asked the place of something.

The sentence is in the past tense thus even the remaining part of the sentence will be in the past tense.

Thus WHERE THEIR TEXTBOOKS WERE is the correct answer.