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Tania77maria Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Past simple or continuous
Which sentence is correct:
a) the film started but we didn't listen.
b) the film started but we weren't listening.
I think b is better
Thank you in advance for your help.
a) the film started but we didn't listen.
b) the film started but we weren't listening.
I think b is better
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
In fact you are right, (b) does sound more natural! Bernice
- In fact you are right, (b) does sound more natural!
- Bernice
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In fact you are right, (b) does sound more natural!
Bernice
Bernice
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tania77mariaWhich sentence is correct:If you had capitalized the first word of each sentence and had put a comma before but, they would both have been correct.
a) the film started but we didn't listen.
b) the film started but we weren't listening.
CJ
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So, can we say that both sentences are grammatically correct?
The film started but we didn't listen.
The film started but we weren't listening.
The film started but we didn't listen.
The film started but we weren't listening.
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tania77mariaSo, can we say that both sentences are grammatically correct?Yes, we can say that. They are correct.
In the first case the film started, but we didn't pay any attention to the film. Maybe we had other more important things to do.
In the second case we weren't being attentive, so we missed the fact that the film had started.
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