angelene001
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I've got a problem with this sentence:
I was thinking about doing it for a long time, but then I decided not to.
I don't understand why the past continuous is used here?
I thought that we use it when we want to show that an action was in progress in the past. But we don't use it when we have a finished, completed action.
Why not the past perfect continuous?
I had been thinking about doing it for a long time, but then I decided not to.
I was thinking about doing it for a long time, but then I decided not to.
I don't understand why the past continuous is used here?
I thought that we use it when we want to show that an action was in progress in the past. But we don't use it when we have a finished, completed action.
Why not the past perfect continuous?
I had been thinking about doing it for a long time, but then I decided not to.