If I have an action that began in the past and finished in the past later (but didn't happen i a precise moment) what tense should I use?
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past tense
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It sounds like you want past continuous: I was studying when the phone rang.
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so in the following phrase:Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:It sounds like you want past continuous: I was studying when the phone rang.
"rulers were discussing from 1990 to 1995 about a law that was approved in 2000"
we shouldn't change the underlined part with have been discussing or have discussed?
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In that case, we have an action that follows the discussion (the approval of the law in 2000), so using present perfect (which occurs at an indeterminate time before the present) doesn't work.
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so, what should the sentence be like?Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:In that case, we have an action that follows the discussion (the approval of the law in 2000), so using present perfect (which occurs at an indeterminate time before the present) doesn't work.
