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Podcast: Wadjasay? American English Pronunciation Practice
Episode: A useful combination: past continuous + simple past
Description: Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks!A common and useful construction in English combines the past continuous and the simple past tenses. Here’s an example:I was washing the dishes when my grandmother arrived.The first part of the sentence describes an action that is happening in the past and is continuing. We don’t know how long the speaker was washing dishes—maybe for ten minutes, maybe for longer—but at some point in time, the dishwashing is interrupted by the arrival of grandmother.Ano...