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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past tenses

Hi, I would like to ask you about the following sentences. Could you please tell me which of them are correct and appropriate?Are there any differences in meaning? Thank you

Whenever I call on her, she talks on the phone.
Whenever I call on her, she is talking on the phone.

Whenever I called on her, she talked on the phone.
Whenever I called on her, she was talking on the phone.
  

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Anonymous Whenever I call on her, she talks on the phone. When you visit her, she makes one or more phone calls. ) Anonymous Whenever I call on her, she is talking on the phone.

  • Anonymous Whenever I call on her, she talks on the phone.
  • When you visit her, she makes one or more phone calls.
  • ) Anonymous Whenever I call on her, she is talking on the phone.
  • Whenever you arrive at her home, you interrupt her phone conversation.
  • The same meaning applies for the past tense.
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AnonymousWhenever I call on her, she talks on the phone.
When you visit her, she makes one or more phone calls. (But this way of saying it is unnatural.)
AnonymousWhenever I call on her, she is talking on the phone.
Whenever you arrive at her home, you interrupt her phone conversation.

The same meaning applies for

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