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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Past tenses
Hello, could you please tell me whether the past simple and continuous can be used interchangebly in the following examples?
The games that we played/were playing.
The films that we watched/were watching.
Thank you
The games that we played/were playing.
The films that we watched/were watching.
Thank you
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They are the same with the limited context you provide. If you were to continue with something like when the phone rang , you would use the past continuous.
- They are the same with the limited context you provide.
- If you were to continue with something like when the phone rang , you would use the past continuous.
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They are the same with the limited context you provide. If you were to continue with something like when the phone rang, you would use the past continuous.
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and what about the sentence He talked about the games that we played/were playing?
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Anonymousand what about the sentence He talked about the games that we played/were playing?Both are grammatical. The speaker who says ... that we played wants us to think of the games as finished, historical, past, done, complete. The speaker who says ... that we were playing wants us to remember the details of the scenes where we were activel
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