milan2003_07
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Dear friends,
I'm continuing to use the Grammar book by Golizinskiy entitled "Grammar. Book of Exercises" (published in Russia and in the Russian language) and below is the sentence I was wondering about:
"He (to make) a report when I (to leave) the meeting". No more context, just this sentence.
The task is to put the verbs in the correct form using past indefinite or past continuous.
I think the right option is to use past continuous in the first case with "make" and past simple with "leave": "He was making a report when I left the meeting".
However, I think that one more option is possible when we use "to leave" in continuous. This will correspond to the process of leaving the meeting because his leaving the meating didn't probably happen instantaneously, but took some time: "He was making a report when I was leaving the meeting".
Am I right with the two possibilities?
Look forward to your reply .
I'm continuing to use the Grammar book by Golizinskiy entitled "Grammar. Book of Exercises" (published in Russia and in the Russian language) and below is the sentence I was wondering about:
"He (to make) a report when I (to leave) the meeting". No more context, just this sentence.
The task is to put the verbs in the correct form using past indefinite or past continuous.
I think the right option is to use past continuous in the first case with "make" and past simple with "leave": "He was making a report when I left the meeting".
However, I think that one more option is possible when we use "to leave" in continuous. This will correspond to the process of leaving the meeting because his leaving the meating didn't probably happen instantaneously, but took some time: "He was making a report when I was leaving the meeting".
Am I right with the two possibilities?
Look forward to your reply .