Вопрос школьника
Match sentences 1 and 2 with uses of the Past Continuous a and b. – Сопоставьте предложения 1 и 2 с использованием простого продолженного времени a и b.
1. Night was falling and the Moon was shining
Ответ от учителя
b. The Past Continuous tense is used here to describe an ongoing action in the past. In this case, the action is the Moon shining. The sentence suggests that the Moon was shining continuously as the night was falling.
2. I was walking home when it started to rain.
a. The Past Continuous tense is used here to describe an action that was in progress at a specific point in the past. In this case, the action is walking home. The sentence suggests that the speaker was walking home when the rain started, and the action of walking was interrupted by the rain.
