Question

Read the sentence to find out possible substitution for for the underlined part.
My friend met me, unexpectedly, when I looked for a taxi, desperately.

• A. Had looked
• B. Was looking
• C. Had been looking
• D. No improvement

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

The correct option is B Was looking
Option B is the correct answer because the statement is in the past tense, and according to the statement, the speaker met his friend unexpectedly when he "was looking" for a taxi, "was looking" is correct because he is referring to an incident that occurred in the past, and "was" is the past tense of "is".

Option A is incorrect because "had looked" means that he had looked for a taxi in the past, which means that he is talking about the past with respect to the past and not the present but he met his friend during the same incident hence it is incorrect.

Option C is incorrect for the same reasons as Option A.