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Today,we're going to learn about simultaneous actions and interrupting actions

Simultaneous Actions: They are actions which were happening at the same time in the past

and which took a long time to happen.Here we conjugate all the verbs in the past continuous

Example

Last night,I was watching a match and my father was reading a newspaper

At the same time I was watching a match and my father was reading a newspaper

The two actions took a long time to happen.Note that we have conjugated the two

verbs in the past continuous.We call the two actions: simultaneous actions

We can combine the two sentences by : while,as or when

While I was watching a match last night,my father was reading a newspaper

Interrupting Action: It's an action that interrupted (stopped ) another action which was happening

Example

My friend was painting the roof of the room.Suddenly,he fell down

The action of painting was happening but it was interrupted ( stopped ) by the action of falling down

Note that we conjugate the verb of the action that was happening in the past continuous

because it's a long action ( it took a long time to happen ) and we conjugate the verb of

the interrupting action in the past simple because it's a short actions ......It

didn't take a long time to happen

Here again we can combine the two sentences by : while,as,when

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