123Amigo
Member
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2011
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
Good evening,
I have been working on grammar exercises in the last few hours. Now I have got some questions which you can hopefully help me with:
1) I booked an appointment for 1.30 pm on Wednesday.
2) In fact, I spent over six hours in the hairdresser's altogether and didn't arrive home until well after 8'o clock.
I would go for "was booking and was spending" but the correction says what I wrote above. Why? In the second sentence we are dealing with a certain amount of time, don't we?
In sentence one I would say we talk about a specific event in the past. My grammar book tells me to use past progressive in such situations.
Can you give me a more proper explanation please? I am unsure about the difference in meaning with simple past and past progressive.
3.1) We would like to have stayed longer.
3.2) We would have liked to stay longer.
3.3) We would have liked to have stayed longer.
I am completely confused about the difference in meaning, as this is nothing I have ever worked on before. They all express preferences in the past, but which sentence fits which past tense and why?
Kind regards
have a good evening
123Amigo
I have been working on grammar exercises in the last few hours. Now I have got some questions which you can hopefully help me with:
1) I booked an appointment for 1.30 pm on Wednesday.
2) In fact, I spent over six hours in the hairdresser's altogether and didn't arrive home until well after 8'o clock.
I would go for "was booking and was spending" but the correction says what I wrote above. Why? In the second sentence we are dealing with a certain amount of time, don't we?
In sentence one I would say we talk about a specific event in the past. My grammar book tells me to use past progressive in such situations.
Can you give me a more proper explanation please? I am unsure about the difference in meaning with simple past and past progressive.
3.1) We would like to have stayed longer.
3.2) We would have liked to stay longer.
3.3) We would have liked to have stayed longer.
I am completely confused about the difference in meaning, as this is nothing I have ever worked on before. They all express preferences in the past, but which sentence fits which past tense and why?
Kind regards
have a good evening
123Amigo