Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
The street was full of people ____ and ____ home.
A)laughed / gone
B)laughing / going
C)having laughed / go
D)to laugh / to go
E)to be laughed / going

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence depicts the actions that are on-going in a past scenario.

Complete step-by-step answer:

We can infer from the hint that the sentence is of the past continuous tense. For a verb to be continuous, the suffix ‘-ing’ is added to it. Thus, options A and D are wrong as neither of the two verbs given ends with an ‘-ing’ and henceforth, not past continuous. Option A is in simple past and option D is in simple present.
Since we know that the sentence is in the past continuous tense, both the verbs have to be conjugated accordingly. Hence, option C and E is wrong as they both are not in past continuous form.
Thus, we conclude that option B is the correct answer. We see that it has both the verbs ending with ‘-ing’ and hence are in the past continuous form.

Note: Past continuous tense is formed by adding was/ were with the continuous form of the main verb. Only an adverb can be placed between was/were and the main verb. Past continuous form depicts actions that have not been completed and are still going on in a past scenario.