Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:

It _____ dark and it _____.

• A. is/are raining
• B. was/was raining
• C. are/was
• D. were/were
• E. were/was

Answer 1

The correct option is B was/was raining

Option B is the correct answer because both "was" and "was raining" are in the simple past tense, as "was" is the past tense of "is", hence it is correct.

Option A is incorrect because "is" dark is correct, but then, the following statement should be "it is raining" , then the statement would have been correct as the entire statement should be in the same tense, past or present.

Option C is incorrect because "are" is used as a plural form, while this statement should be made in the singular form, as they are talking about a place, hence "it is dark" is correct.

Option D is incorrect because then the statement would remain incomplete.

Option E is incorrect for the same reason as D.