Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. When the PMC Bank failed many people's lives were ruining. (a) No substitution required (b) were ruined (c) was ruined (d) has ruined

Options

A. No substitution required
B. were ruined
C. was ruined
D. has ruined

Answer

B

Explanation

As the bank failure was an incident that took place in the past, so the past simple form of the verb(ruined) will be used in the given sentence. Therefore, use "were ruined" instead of were ruining".