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Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
We _________ television when a bird flew into the room.

A
was watching
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were watching
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C
looked at
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D
saw
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Solution

The correct option is C were watching
The past continuous and simple past tenses are commonly used together. In this case, the simple past tense is used to refer to the shorter action that happens in the middle of a longer background action, like the bird flew in when the longer background action of watching television happened. Hence, Option B is correct. The rest of the options do not express this condition, hence incorrect.

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