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Complete the following sentence by selecting the most appropriate option:

Please tell me what you ______when I ______ you yesterday evening.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

An ongoing past action interrupted by a shorter past action takes past continuous for the longer action and simple past for the interruption: 'what you were doing when I called you'. The other options mix tenses incorrectly for this interrupted-action structure.

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