Application goal: Describing an interrupting event.
Use the past continuous for an action in progress and the past simple for an event during it. When and while help connect the events.
Context: An interrupted journey. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.
Use the past continuous for an action in progress and the past simple for an event during it. When and while help connect the events.
Context: An interrupted journey. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.
Practical examples
While we were waiting, the driver made an announcement.
بينما كنا ننتظر، أذاع السائق إعلانًا.
A signal problem was delaying several trains on the line.
كانت مشكلة في الإشارات تؤخر عدة قطارات على الخط.
We finally reached the station forty minutes later.
وصلنا أخيرًا إلى المحطة بعد أربعين دقيقة.