He was working in a bank

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

This is taken from ''Longman English Grammar.'' It says that the past progressive is used to set the scene at the beginning of the story. Is the marked sentence an example of this use?

 

[jutfrank]

It is, yes, but that's past simple, not past continuous.

With the state verb be, we use the past simple to set the scene because we don't tend to use it in continuous tenses.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It is, yes, but that's past simple, not past continuous.

With the state verb be, we use the past simple to set the scene because we don't tend to use it in continuous tenses.

I meant the sentence ''He was workingin a bank and travelling to London every day.''

 

[jutfrank]

Oh. Yes, that one too.