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Hi! There are two examples. Tell me, please, what one is incorrect:
1) While Jane was decorating Christmas tree, her mum cleaned the room.
2) While Jane was decorating Christmas tree, her mum was cleaning the room.
Is the last sentence correct? If the first, why?
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Can I say it this way?
Hi! There are two examples. Tell me, please, which one is incorrect:
1) While Jane was decorating the Christmas tree, her mum cleaned the room.
2) While Jane was decorating the Christmas tree, her mum was cleaning the room.
Is the last sentence correct? If the first, why?
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With the corrections others have made, in U.S. English neither is incorrect,
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But the task demands to choose what is more correctly...
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Both are correct. One suggests that her mum had completed the cleaning, the second does not make it clear.
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