Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.
The man disappeared after he was rescuing a boy from drowning.
- Awas rescued
- Bhas been rescued
- Chad rescued
- DNo improvement
Explanation
In the given sentence, past perfect tense needs to be used as this tense is used when you’re talking about some point in the past and want a reference of an event that happened even earlier, that is, to convey a clear sequence of the events. Hence, ‘was rescuing’ must be replaced with ‘had rescued’. Thus, option (c) is correct