Are the tenses correct in this sentence ?
Hello,
I am a non-native speaker and, during my English lessons, I was taught that the past continuous should be used when a continuous action that started in the past is interrupted by another action in the past, which is expressed with the past simple. However, in this sentence :
"When Mark went to school, his classmates were constantly making fun of him because of his glasses."
I don't see another tense that sounds good to express that during his entire schooling, Mark was laughed at by his classmates.
Can someone help me ?
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anonymous I was taught that the past continuous should be used when a continuous action that started in the past is interrupted by another action in the past, which is expressed with the past simple. Yes, that is true. But it does not say that this is the only use of past continuous.
- anonymous I was taught that the past continuous should be used when a continuous action that started in the past is interrupted by another action in the past, which is expressed with the past simple.
- Yes, that is true.
- But it does not say that this is the only use of past continuous.
- There are other uses, such as your sentence.
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anonymous I was taught that the past continuous should be used when a continuous action that started in the past is interrupted by another action in the past, which is expressed with the past simple.
Yes, that is true.
But it does not say that this is the only use of past continuous. There are other uses, such as your sentence.
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