Cuando anita y jorge jóvenes, muy buenos amigos. ellos a la escuela juntos. ellos a comer juntos. anita no muy buena alumna, pero muy buena atleta. jorge un excelente alumno, pero no atleta. choose the verb that best completes the sentence or phrase with space number: (4) a. eran c. era b. iba d. iban

We need to fill the blank with the verb ser or ir matching the corresponding conjugation. So we have have these options:

a. eran (ser)
b. era (ser)
c. iba (ir)
d. iban (ir)

Cuando Anita y Jorge eran jóvenes, eran muy buenos amigos. Ellos iban a la escuela juntos. Ellos iban a comer juntos. Anita no era muy buena alumna, pero era muy buena atleta. Jorge era un excelente alumno, pero no era un buen atleta.

This paragraph is in the imperfect tense (el imperfecto). This tense is used to describe past habitual actions or to talk about what someone was doing when they were interrupted by something else. In general, the imperfect is used to talk about past actions, conditions, or events that occurred regularly or frequently or that were in progress in a moment in the past. It is also used to tell time, talk about dates, give a person's age, and describe features, conditions, and feelings in the past. There are two forms in this verbal tense, namely: Regular Imperfect Forms and Irregular Imperfect Forms.

The verbs that we are using in this exercise is ser and ir. These two verbs have irregular forms. Therefore, the conjugations of these verbs are shown in the Table below.