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Lcchang Posted 18 years ago
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was practicing/ had been practicing

0Aaron 01font00was practicing02font00 for his acting class when the phone rang.02br
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00Aaron 01font00had been practicing02font00 for his acting class when the phone rang.02br
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00May I ask how you think about these two sentences? They both sound similar to each other, but I wonder under what situations you would say either one.0-
  

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00In the second sentence, the practice is finished when the phone rings; in the first sentence, Aaron is still acting when it rings.0-

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