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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect continuous vs past perfect/past continuous

Hi!
Would anyone be able to help me out on the differences in the below sentences?
1. It had been snowing when I built a snowman.
2. It was snowing when I built a snowman.

3. It had been snowing.
4. It had snowed.

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This is the most natural sentence for me: It was snowing when I built a snowman. If I had to use had been snowing , I would add something : It had been snowing for five hours when I built a snowman. CB

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  • This is the most natural sentence for me: It was snowing when I built a snowman.
  • If I had to use had been snowing , I would add something : It had been snowing for five hours when I built a snowman.
  • CB
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This is the most natural sentence for me: It was snowing when I built a snowman. If I had to use had been snowing, I would add something: It had been snowing for five hours when I built a snowman.

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