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Reading on a phone or tablet is generally passive scrolling, often interrupted by messages and alerts.

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So, if you're thinking about a previous experience where you completed a task, events like being interrupted and then getting distracted and waiting a week for someone to reply to an email, these don't clearly fit into any of those places in that structure.

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And so what that means is that if you're working on something for let's say 1 hour and you're interrupted just once, because it takes you 5 to 25 minutes to rebuild that context again when you get back to your task, your output across that hour may go down by 20 to 40%.

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Now, across an entire day, if you're getting interrupted, switching contexts five to 10 times a day, which is honestly pretty conservative, that can easily make a 5-hour task take 7, 8, 9, 10 hours.

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And that could include being shocked, psychologically affected, or also interrupted while you're doing something.

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returned to the room. He opened the door and could not believe what he saw. "Is this a trick? How did you do this?" he demanded. Sophie's father interrupted, "I told you, my daughter is amazing!" "Her mother was the same," the king shouted. "Sophie, come with me!" The king led Sophie to another

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But that lesson is about to be interrupted because Zazu, the royal adviser, has just arrived with his morning report.

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we are the aliens that landed and interrupted the whole [music] we never know. I just think like maybe a high intelligence society before us built the pyramids. And we came... I'm a big fan of Blade Runner, Cyberpunk. Yeah, those type of sci-fi stuff. What is your prophecy?

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The cover really interrupted.

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OH, SORRY. I I interrupted you.

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The surface. Explore all the Lake of Nine has to offer. After getting that trophy, I was then able to find the final artifact. There is the final artifact right there, just had to lower the water level. Oh, I can't pick it up just yet, there's some baddies here. I got you now. What I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, here's my final artifact, and there we go: the trophy Curator (collect all of the artifacts). While attempting to leave the place I was in after getting that final artifact, I got another

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Oh, I thought you were just warming up. Dad, we're playing improvisational snugem. Yes, and Anais was playing some of the most intricate formations I've ever heard before someone interrupted. It's okay.

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But suddenly, everything gets interrupted when Rena unexpectedly appears there demanding answers.

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They just interrupted and it was quite rude.

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So in this context it's always followed by a person followed by the person who's being interrupted.

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She interrupted in a rude way and shut his idea down.

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Form. We use this to set the context in which the main events of the story happen. So for example, you know, it could be "the sun was shining and the birds were singing," "I was driving along in my car when something happened." And those past continuous contextual things always get interrupted or are followed by past simple. Past simple: these are the main events of the story. This happened, then this...

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Happened, then this happened, just the main events of the story one after the other. Whereas past continuous, this thing was happening, here was the situation, interrupted by a past simple event. "The rain was falling heavily," he eased off the accelerator a little bit. Okay, there's also past perfect, which is used to describe background details, backstory. For example, "the rain was falling heavily, it hadn't...

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Now, uh, what was you going to ask me before we were so rudely interrupted?

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