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Layla1234 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Past continuous

is it gramatically correct to say:

I couldn't sleep at night, I was tossing and turning in my bed all night long? Now it is morning
  

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I couldn't sleep at night. I was tossing and turning in my bed all night long.

If I would like to use past perfect continuous in this sentence how it would change the meaning of the sentence:

I couldn't sleep a night. I had been tossing and turning in my bed all night long.
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Dear Clive,

How about "wrestling in bed" since we have wrestling sleeping?

Does it sound normal?

Thank you in advance,

Iman
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Hi,

How about "wrestling in bed" since we have wrestling sleeping?

Does it sound normal? No, sounds odd.

Like you were fighting with your bed-mate. Or even something sexual.

Clive
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Hi,

No.

Sounds like the 'tossing and turning all night' happened before the 'couldn't sleep all night'.

This is not the meaning of the original.

Clive
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Thank you.

But I've heard that a sound sleep is called "sleep like a log" and contrary to that is the "wrestling sleeping".

If not, would you please give me the correct terms for these kinds of sleeping?

Regards,

Iman
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Hi,

I've never heard 'wrestling sleeping'. I womder if what you actualy heard was the term 'restless sleeping'?

Clive
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YES. Maybe.

Thank you very much.

Iman
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