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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

climbing onto the gate

While I was climbing onto the gate to go over that side, I fell down.

Is this sentence correct?

I wrote this sentence to mean, "I fell down when I was climbing onto the gate to go to other side because the gate had been closed".

Please help me.
  

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It's ok When some short action (fell down) happens on the background of another action (was climbing) you use this very structure

  • It's ok When some short action (fell down) happens on the background of another action (was climbing) you use this very structure
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It's ok
When some short action (fell down) happens on the background of another action (was climbing) you use this very structure

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