Michaelll
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No. You wrote 'especially the second' which is in the perfect aspect, so I wrote an example where (as I think) the perfect aspect may not mean she finished it.Are you asking if this suggests she finished the report?
……13b. While Sally wrote a report, Barry prepared lunch.
……13c. Sally wrote a report while Barry was preparing lunch.
What I can't figure out is this: do I understand correctly that 13a and 13d don't tell us whether the report was completed or not, while 13b and 13c show us that the report was completed?
None of them necessarily mean that the report was completed.
- Barry prepared lunch while Sally wrote the report. If she hadn't written the report, she'd have had time to do something else.
Jack: She prepared lunch while I wrote the report.
- Jack claims to have written the report.