Combine the following sentences into one sentence using an adverb clause of time:
Neha was ironing her school uniform. The doorbell rang.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → While Neha was ironing her school uniform, the doorbell rang.
Adverb clause of time:
- An adverb clause of time tells when something happens. While joins a longer action that was going on with a short action that happened in the middle of it.
- Neha’s ironing was going on, and the doorbell rang during it. So “while” begins the clause of the longer action, and the main clause “the doorbell rang” follows after a comma.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: While Neha ironing her school uniform, the doorbell rang. — Incorrect. The clause has a subject, “Neha”, but no full verb. “Ironing” needs “was” before it.
Option 2: While Neha was ironing her school uniform, but the doorbell rang. — Incorrect. The option uses “while” and “but” together. “While” already joins the two clauses, so the extra “but” is wrong.
Option 3: While Neha was ironing her school uniform, the doorbell it rang. — Incorrect. “The doorbell” is already the subject of “rang”. The extra “it” gives the verb a second subject.