Identify the grammatically correct form of the given sentence.
Sentence: As the pedicurist painted her nail, Simran speaks softly without looking at me.
I. As the pedicurist paints her nail, Simran spoke softly without looking at me.
II. As the pedicurist painted her nail, Simran spoke softly without looking at me.

Correct option is A

The correct sentence is (a) Only II is correct.
Explanation:
· Sentence II correctly maintains past tense throughout: “painted” and “spoke”.
· Sentence I mixes present (“paints”) and past (“spoke”), which results in a tense inconsistency.
Grammatical rule used:
✔ Maintain tense consistency when describing actions that happened in the same time frame.
Example: She cooked dinner while he cleaned the kitchen.
�� Information Booster: Switching tenses in a single sentence should only occur for very specific stylistic or temporal shifts, not for general narration.