Because Cole wears a helmet when he struck on the head by a falling coconut ten years ago, he has escaped serious injury in that episode
the corrected sentence is as follows:
Because Cole was wearing a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
My confusion is, why are we using past progressive form in the first part? Cole was not actually performing the act of 'wearing' the helmet. he was simply equipped with a helmet.
My take :
Because Cole wore a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
Somebody plz explain.
Source: Manhattan SC Guide.
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The verb wear means "equipped with" (in your words). It DOES NOT mean the act of putting on the helmet. I know in some languages this is not entirely true. For example, in Chinese the verb (chuan) is translated as wear but its more like putting on. Further, we use the past progressive because he was wearing it for a period of time. For example, I say "I am wearing a watch"... that means the watch is on my hand and it has been there for a while.miteshsholay wrote:Because Cole wears a helmet when he struck on the head by a falling coconut ten years ago, he has escaped serious injury in that episode
the corrected sentence is as follows:
Because Cole was wearing a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
My confusion is, why are we using past progressive form in the first part? Cole was not actually performing the act of 'wearing' the helmet. he was simply equipped with a helmet.
My take :
Because Cole wore a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
Somebody plz explain.
Source: Manhattan SC Guide.
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I believe "was wearing" and "wore" doesn't make much difference . I guess the author wants to stress on "Wearing" helmet.
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Hey Mitesh,miteshsholay wrote:Because Cole wears a helmet when he struck on the head by a falling coconut ten years ago, he has escaped serious injury in that episode
the corrected sentence is as follows:
Because Cole was wearing a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
My confusion is, why are we using past progressive form in the first part? Cole was not actually performing the act of 'wearing' the helmet. he was simply equipped with a helmet.
My take :
Because Cole wore a helmet when he was struck on the head by a falling
coconut ten years ago, he escaped serious injury in that episode.
Somebody plz explain.
Source: Manhattan SC Guide.
Ok this is one of the fun things that I noticed while prepping on Sentence Correction. This is a timeline sort of question.
Past Progressive tense - On the timeline it is something that was being done (continuous) until it was interrupted by another action in the past. Example - She was sleeping until I woke her up.
Another timeline effect is the Past Perfect tense - An action should be completed in the past followed by another past action to have a past perfect tense.
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Anup