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Question related to "Past Progressive".
Hi Guys. I've recently started studying "Past Progressive" more thoroughly and experienced some problems with it.
I Started solving an exercise and encountered with some difficulties. Please help me understand better.
The exercise is about Mr.Jones who won 5 Million Dollars and was being interviewed about it.
(Note that the answer can be in Past Simple or Past Progressive).
Interviewer: "What where you doing when you heard the news?"
Mr.Jones: "I was sitting at home with my wife. We were watching TV and drinking coffee."Past Progressive because sitting, watching and drinking is a longer activity not just a short one unlike the examples below: checked, screamed, phoned, which is Past Simple. These activities HAPPENED ONE AFTER ANOTHER and these were relatively short activities. Mr. Jones was not in the middle of doing these things. He just told the interviewer the things he did one after another.
Notice that they were sitting, watching TV and drinking coffee AT THE SAME TIME
Interviewer: "What where you doing when you heard you won?"
Mr.Jones: "First I checked my lottery ticket. Then I screamed. Finally, I phoned my son to tell him the good news."
Please help me to solve this exercise and explain your answers.
Thanks! :)))Hope it helps.
0 votedJanuary 13, 20142Catfish
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It will be on TV every day and it's official: I'm obsessed! :D The TV networks broadcast it for an hour so it's a problem for me, because when I came home from work, I started to watch it, but it's a stupid program.
Before I started to write this entry I had searched on Youtube and I had found the trailer of the Season 2. Oh, man! And who knows how many more seasons will it last?!
By the way, I'm not 100% sure that these stories are really true. Some of these are so obvious. I don't believe that there are people on the Earth who believe this fake profile. Or they really want to love somebody.
It's weird for me, but I didn't have any experiences with online dating. Maybe that's why I don't understand these people.
In any case, I love the show and I don't know how long will the obsession last. :DGood job. Just tiny mistakes.
0 votedJanuary 13, 20142I like reading a book
I like reading a book, because it's very useful for my memory, but sometimes so hard to find a good book.
I like Russian poems and psychology. My favorite writer is Richard Wayne Bandler.
Sometimes i'm writing write poems in Russian.The I (personal pronoun) is always written in a CAPITAL LETTER.
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0 votedNovember 21, 20131- I don't understand this sentence: "In fact, I think they're putting up my grade six report." I am translating a subtitle for a video and I don't understand the sentence above. Please, help me. Here is the context: "When I was five, I went to school and I learned braille. It's an ingenious system of six dots that are punched into paper, and I can feel them with my fingers. In fact, I think they're putting up my grade six report. I don't know where Julian Morrow got that from. (Laughter)"September 29, 201350
