Which one is correct?
- Both "was" and "was stirring" are past tense.
- Both "was" and "was stirring" refer to the past, but when placed together in the same sentence, two past tense verbs cancel each other out and the sentence becomes present tense.
Both are correct English. Only #1 is true. Clive
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