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GATE DA 2025 Q2: Tense: We ___ tennis when it started to rain

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We __________ tennis in the lawn when it suddenly started to rain.

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Answer: B (official GATE 2025 final answer key)

Concept used: Past perfect continuous tense for an action in progress before another past event.

First step: "Started to rain" is in the past, and the playing was already going on at that moment, so the verb must describe an ongoing action before a past event.

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Source: official GATE 2025 DA question paper and final answer key, organised by IIT Roorkee. Question paper · Answer key

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