Read the introduction to Kenny’s personal narrative, “Best Friends.”

Karim, Johan, and I had been best friends since seventh grade. We were inseparable. Sometimes we’d spend entire weekends reading comic books and playing basketball. So when Karim’s parents ______ us that they were moving across the country, we didn’t believe it, and we didn’t know how our friendship would survive.

Which word correctly fills in the blank?

tell

told

tells

telling

As it can be seen, most of the abstract provided, belonging to the introduction to Kenny’s personal narrative, “Best Friends.” is written in past tense; either past perfect, past progressive or simple past. Therefore, from the options of the verb (to) tell listed, the one that correctly would fill the blank is "told".

In this sense, the sentence would result as follow: So when Karim’s parents told us that they were moving across the country, we didn’t believe it, and we didn’t know how our friendship would survive.