Timeline for No need of continuous with while?
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| May 8, 2017 at 18:23 | comment | added | WS2 | It could be that it is grammatically correct, for the reasons you have given. More likely, I suspect, is that it is a frequently made grammatical error. In various north of England accents, it is perfectly common to hear the past participle of a verb, substituted for what should be the present participle, especially when employing the past continuous (imperfect tense). I was sat in the library, when a tall man walked in. I suspect the sample sentence, in standard English, should read ...and his mother sitting down beside him | |
| May 8, 2017 at 12:05 | vote | accept | Yves Lefol | ||
| May 8, 2017 at 10:43 | history | answered | Lucian Sava | CC BY-SA 3.0 |