Timeline for Why using the past continuous tense when the action has already finished?
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 1:09 | history | edited | Zhang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 1:02 | vote | accept | Zhang | ||
| Mar 28, 2019 at 11:59 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 5:08 | comment | added | Learning Equals Success | Yours had some serious effects on me. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 4:56 | comment | added | Zhang | @TasneemZh, thank you for your editing of the question. But I catch you too, "'C' have realized ..." :) | |
| S Mar 28, 2019 at 4:53 | history | suggested | Learning Equals Success | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a tag, fixed a few grammatical mistakes to make things clearer, edited the question title
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| Mar 28, 2019 at 4:38 | comment | added | Learning Equals Success | The past continuous tense also indicates that the action took some period of time to get finished, or it was in the process when something happened. So in your sentence, "C" have realized that fact when s/he was talking with "A". It can also be "talked" if "C" realized that after finishing the talk with "A". | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 3:05 | history | asked | Zhang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |