Timeline for past simple in relation to continuous infinitve
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 10 at 14:06 | comment | added | timchessish | "I did something to be doing something else" does seem to need a qualifying phrase. "I decided to be sleeping when she came to visit us" does make sense, but only if you specify when you had decided to be sleeping. | |
| May 10 at 13:08 | comment | added | Adam | @timchessish bb | |
| May 10 at 11:09 | comment | added | Adam | Can we then say that we only use continuous infinitve with past simmple to show that something happens before something else like " I planned to be hiding once she came in" and if it doesn't serve that puprose like "I decided to be sleeping" it doesn't make sens untill we add something like " I decided to be she sleeping when she came to visit us". Is that correct? | |
| May 10 at 9:11 | comment | added | timchessish | Thanks Kate, that's corrected now. | |
| May 10 at 9:11 | history | edited | timchessish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10 at 8:33 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | You mean 'the second version of (2) makes no sense'. | |
| May 10 at 8:04 | history | answered | timchessish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |