past progressive or past perfect progressive

What do you think? and why?
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Goodman,

I understand the use of thoses tenses in English, however, what I would like to discuss here is the possibility of a different interpretation, I mean, Past Perfect Progressive is used to talk about a longer action which had continued up to the past moment we were mentioning, while the past progressive is used to talk about an action which was in progress during a time in the pas

Beta,

Sure we can discuss but I thought you were not sure which one was correct, at least this is the impression I got.

(Bob and I went for a walk.). I had trouble keeping up with him because he was walking so fast



This is a rather simple sentence. I understand your thinking pattern because of the 2 actions (had trouble and walked). I see it this wa

Thank you very much, next time, I´ll make myself clear!!

Beta

Hi

in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a walk. I had ttrouble keeping up with him because ____ (walk) so fast. which tense shoul be used?

Past progressive because he was walking so fast

or Past Perfect Progressive because he had been walking so fast

Of these two choices, only the former is correct. The latter seems an odd thing to even consid

beta_teacherPast progressive or Past Perfect Progressive

Of the two, past progressive is the only one that seems idiomatic to my ear, but present is fine as well. In fact, present tense was the first that came to mind for me, i.e., he's a 'fast walker'. And the simple past is also fine.
CJ

Hi,

The original poster, beta_teacher, wrote:

in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a javascript:void(0). I had ttrouble javascript:void(0) with him because ____ (walk) so javascript:void(0). which tense shoul be used? Past progressive or Past Perfect Progressive

AnonymousI think a good tense option after a past tense to denote an action that happened before that up to that the time shown in the sentence is a past perfect tense,

There's nothing wrong with this reasoning, but the time of having trouble must have been the very same time as the walking too fast. If the fast walking had taken place before the walking ses

Hi,

Bob and I went for a walk. I had trouble keeping up with him because he had been walking so fast.

This sounds like the action of walking fast occurred before I had trouble keeping up with him, whereas it needs to have been at the same time in order to make sense. That's why it sounds odd.

Here is an example where the sequence of events and the use of the Past Perfect

CliveHi,

Bob and I went for a walk. I had trouble keeping up with him because he had been walking so fast.

This sounds like the action of walking fast occurred before I had trouble keeping up with him, whereas it needs to have been at the same time in order to make sense. That's why it sounds odd.

Here is an example where the sequence of events