I was looking for/I had been looking
Hello,
can you please explain it to me why Past Perfect Continuous is used in this sentence, not Past Continuous?
"I then mentioned that I had been looking at toys in a department store when a store detective accused me of shoplifting..."
I've been taught that we use Past Perfect Continuous to indicate how long an activity or situation lasted until something else happened.
Thank you.
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Hotmale please explain it to me why p ast p erfect c ontinuous is used in this sentence The answer may have to be found in the paragraph(s) that precede this segment of the text. As it stands, the only explanation is that the looking at toys occurred before the accusation of shoplifting. And both past events occurred before my mentioning them.
- Hotmale please explain it to me why p ast p erfect c ontinuous is used in this sentence The answer may have to be found in the paragraph(s) that precede this segment of the text.
- As it stands, the only explanation is that the looking at toys occurred before the accusation of shoplifting.
- And both past events occurred before my mentioning them.
- CJ
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Hotmaleplease explainit to mewhy past perfect continuous is used in this sentence
The answer may have to be found in the paragraph(s) that precede this segment of the text.
As it stands, the only explanation is that the looking at t
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