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

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I was playing tennis." Here I'm using the past continuous with "I was playing tennis" because I was in the middle of doing a longer action in the past. You can also use the past simple and the past continuous together to talk about how a longer action was interrupted by another action; for example, "I was taking a shower when you called me." So I was in

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the middle of doing a longer action when you interrupted that action. Now let's practice with some activities. Take a look at this task here; I'd like you to fill in the gaps. Pause the video if you need more time. "I saw Sarah in town yesterday, but she didn't see me; she was looking in the other direction." So with the first sentence, "I saw Sarah," it

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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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Another use of past continuous which is very interesting is when a long action is interrupted by a short one.

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What do I mean? It's also called interrupted past in some of the course books. It's something like this.

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The long action was she reading a book. And what was the short action that interrupted this long action?

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OH, SORRY. I I interrupted you.

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Every chance at a fish was quickly interrupted by a wave. And after a bucketload of failures, I left empty-handed.

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the End operation Romance is a failure that's that though we were interrupted dear it's been so so wonderful even if it was only wonderful for Me Abba being with you has been challenging to say the least I'm so sorry just

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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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We often use the past continuous and simple together to talk about a longer interaction interrupted by a shorter one.

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