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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Past Continuous Tense

Why can't we say "She was looking nice yesterday" instead of "She looked nice yesterday" or "I was thinking that I would go there" instead of " I thought that I would go there" ?
  

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Anonymous Why can't we say "She was looking nice yesterday" instead of "She looked nice yesterday" or "I was thinking that I would go there" instead of " I thought that I would go there" ? But the country I live in, we do say those things. "She was looking nice yesterday", however, may imply that she doesn't normally look nice.

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  • Anonymous Why can't we say "She was looking nice yesterday" instead of "She looked nice yesterday" or "I was thinking that I would go there" instead of " I thought that I would go there" ?
  • But the country I live in, we do say those things.
  • "She was looking nice yesterday", however, may imply that she doesn't normally look nice.
  • In your other sentence, the use of 'was thinking' mean that you were considering going there.
  • There, it doesn't have meaning "to have an opinion about".
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AnonymousWhy can't we say "She was looking nice yesterday" instead of "She looked nice yesterday" or "I was thinking that I would go there" instead of " I thought that I would go there" ?
But the country I live in, we do say those things. "She was looking nice yesterday", however, may imply that she doesn't normally look nice.

In your other sentence,
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