It was raining for 2 hours ( just a random past event is it correct to use for with past continuous like i did or we should use past perfect with time duration?) your sentence is fine. We use past continuous to emphasize the fact that an action continued for a long time in the past. We have been friends since we were working there.
Eg.he was studying all day yesterday. The english simple past can act in the same way as the imperfect of many romance languages, to describe a continuous action in the past. So i am probably still feeling a little sick, the same as i have for a week now.
Everyone jumps out from where they were hiding (at the time just before pluto comes into the house). Where were you having for dinner last night? Use the past perfect only if you want to provide background information for something else (which happened or began to happen two hours after it started raining). Hello is it acceptable to use the past continuous tense in the following situation?
Present perfect is the past tense with a relevance (a continuation) to the present time. I mean, is it better to say throughout his twenties he worked as an english teacher during the day and spent his free time writing. or throughout his twenties he. When talking about a past action using throughout, should i put the verb in the past tense simple or continuous? Peter studied all day yesterday is perfectly correct english.
So i guess it would be the same for : We use past continuous to talk about actions or. (?) i am giving one more example as this is a sentence created by my teacher who wasn´t sure whether or not it was possible to say it under certain circumstances. I feel confused about the use of already with the past continuous tense.
He tackled each of the questions with determination. Does it mean the same thing. Past continuous and past simple 1. The fact is always used as a framwork or background.
The most common use of the past continuous tense is to talk about something that was happening around a particular time in the past. It should be what instead of where] thank you. Could you tell me your opinion? Already expresses something had been done while the past continuous describes action and actions happening at that time.