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.
I was living in Chennai for ten years when I was a child.
- Ahad lived
- Blived
- Chad been living
- DNo improvement
Explanation
The sentence describes a completed state over a finished period in the past, 'for ten years when I was a child', which calls for the simple past, not the progressive. The past continuous 'was living' wrongly suggests an ongoing background action. 'Had been living' would need a later past event cutting it off, which is absent here. Hence 'lived', option (b), is correct.