The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
While my wife / cooked the food, / I writing / a book.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. I writing.
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The segment that contains a grammatical error is: "I writing."
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In case of two past actions, past continuous tense is used with the progressive action and simple past tense is used with the action that happens in the middle of that progressive action.
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Thus, past continuous tense should be used to express the second option.
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The correct form should be: "I was writing."
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So, the corrected sentence would be: While my wife cooked the food, I was writing a book.