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while I was doing my homework, she <called><was calling>
- Thread starter Chstavridis
- Start date Apr 7, 2019
Chstavridis
- Apr 7, 2019
While I know that Past Progressive is usually used for simultaneous past actions , past actions already in progress , or for emphasise on the past actions progress ... Based on these rules I can't understand how to complete the empty fields in the below exercise: Last night, while I was doing my homework, Angela (1. call ) _____. She said she (2. call ) _____ me on her cell phone from her biology classroom at UCLA. I asked her if she (3. wait ) _____ for class, but she said that the professor was at the front of the hall lecturing while she (4. talk ) _____ to me. I couldn't believe she (5. make ) _____ a phone call during the lecture. Could someone explaine me based on the above rules how to complete the sentenses, and why to choose Past Progressive and not Past Simple ?
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You should say which options you think are correct. What may help is that (2), (3) and (4) are all reported speech, so you might like to think instead what words Angela would actually have spoken, and then backshift them. (1) "call", is in the "simultaneous past actions" category, but if you remember that usually only one of the simultaneous actions, the "background" one, uses the past progressive tense, then you should be able to work out which is the correct form here.
Your questions are not ridiculous. With reported speech, you usually don't change from simple to progressive or vice versa. I thought it might be easier to imagine the actual conversation, in the present tense: Angela: I'm calling you on my cell phone from my biology classroom at UCLA You: Are you waiting for class? Angela: No, the professor is at the front of the hall lecturing while I am talking to you. Okay, it might not have gone quite like this, but you might be able to see that the conversation could not have been: Angela: I call you on my cell phone from my biology classroom at UCLA You: Do you wait for class? Angela: No, the professor is at the front of the hall lecturing while I talk to you. Actually, the last sentence is perhaps not as clear as it might be (it is more common for only one simultaneous event to use the progressive form), but "was talking" is undoubtedly correct. The very last verb, (5) make, can be either, I think, depending on whether you are reporting what you thought at the time ("was making"), or whether you are reflecting on the situation now ("made"), but I think "was making" goes better with "couldn't" (past tense). With "can't" (present tense), it would be better to use "made".
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Today I did this exercise, I scored 92%… The exercise is from this link: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs4.htm
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Your score is 92 %. Some of your answers are incorrect. Incorrect answers have been left in place for you to change.
Last night, while I was doing my homework, Angela (call) called . She said she (call) was calling me on her cell phone from her biology classroom at UCLA. I asked her if she (wait) was waiting for class, but she said that the professor was at the front of the hall lecturing while she (talk) was talking to me. I couldn’t believe she (make) made (WAS MAKING) a phone call during the lecture. I asked what was going on. She said her biology professor was so boring that several of the students (sleep, actually) were actually sleeping in class. Some of the students (talk) were talking about their plans for the weekend and the student next to her (draw) was drawing a picture of a horse. When Angela (tell) told me she was not satisfied with the class, I (mention) mentioned that my biology professor was quite good and (suggest) suggested that she switch to my class. While we were talking, I (hear) heard her professor yell, “Miss, are you making a phone call?” Suddenly, the line went dead. I (hang) hung up the phone and went to the kitchen to make dinner. As I ( cut) was cutting vegetables for a salad, the phone rang once again. It (be) was Angela, but this time she wasn’t sitting in class.
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The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were going on around a particular point of time in the past.. Form: Subject + was / were + ing form of the verb. What were you doing when the guests turned up? I was working in the garage.; The past continuous and simple past tenses are commonly used together. In this case, the simple past tense is used to refer to the ...
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