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Sebayanpendam Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Progressive tense vs past tense

hi,

Can you please explain what is the difference between these two questions?

1. What were your teacher teaching you last year?

2. What did your teacher teach you last year?
  

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sebayanpendam hi, Can you please explain what is the difference between these two questions? 1. What was your teacher teaching you last year?

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  • What was your teacher teaching you last year?
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  • What did your teacher teach you last year?
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sebayanpendamhi,

Can you please explain what is the difference between these two questions?

1. What was your teacher teaching you last year?

2. What did your teacher teach you last year?
The first has a grammatical error, the second does not.

The first sentence asks what material or subjects were in the school progr
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hi again,

so can i presume that the progressive tense is used to indicate activities or actions that were going on whereas the past tense shows results.

Thank you so much..
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In this particular case, yes. It might not hold for all cases, but I cannot think of a good example.
Progressive tense indicates something in progress and may or may not have been completed. It is used to tell what was going on when the activity was interrupted. Past tense indicates a completed action. So it is very common to see past progressive and past tense used in the same sentence.
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