Timeline for Simple + Simple clauses when one event interrupts another
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 1:53 | vote | accept | mosceo | ||
| Jun 28, 2013 at 3:33 | history | edited | Emmabee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2013 at 3:30 | comment | added | Emmabee | You're absolutely correct. Sorry about that! I did some digging and refreshed my memory on the way past perfect/past perfect continuous works differently in conditionals than in regular use, but I found a very high number of speakers using the simple past/past continuous to refer to a past conditional while I was searching. I removed my assertion that past continuous was the correct choice (since it isn't), but left in the mention that it's still used anyway (since it is). Regardless, the answer to your actual question stands as it was. Use the continuous. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 3:27 | history | edited | Emmabee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I was wrong! I removed the bits where I was wrong!
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| Jun 28, 2013 at 1:57 | comment | added | mosceo | Your last example shatters everything what I know about the third conditional. If during a past event I was not doing something, than after that I could never say "If I was doing it", it is always "If I had been doing it." That's the third conditional. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 1:47 | history | answered | Emmabee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |