Guests arrived and Marcus cooked

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so

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when the guests arrived marcus cooked

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dinner

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what this means is first

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the guests arrived to marcus's house or

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apartment or wherever right

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then

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marcus cooked dinner he began

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cooking dinner he started step one then

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step two

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right

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when the guests arrived

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marcus cooked dinner yeah one and then

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two

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but when the guests arrived marcus was

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cooking dinner

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that means that marcus started cooking

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dinner

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time continued

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the guests arrived

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and he kept cooking dinner

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so

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marcus was doing this action and it went

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on for a long time yeah and something

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came between it

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something interrupted something happened

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during so he was cooking dinner

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during this time

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the guests arrived you can imagine they

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came and probably said something like oh

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my gosh it smells so good in here it

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looks so good because he was already in

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the process of cooking it was already

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happening

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um

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let's look at some more examples of the

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past

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um

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the past continuous aka the past

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progressive i'm just going to type this

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for you too

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um

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you can use either name of this you

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could say past continuous or past

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progressive um

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yeah try saying that to yourself past

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continuous past progressive i like the

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word continuous um more than progress

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though because it shows that it's a

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continuing action it's something that's

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going on

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for a long period of time which is part

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of when we use the past continuous

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so i prefer that because it reminds me

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of when to use it like why

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so he was talking

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on the phone for hours last night

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he was talking on the phone for hours

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last night

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right that's one more example

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let's look at another one

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i read this one yeah we were traveling

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on the train when it suddenly stopped

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so we were traveling

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and then suddenly stopped

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right

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so how do we know when to use

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the past continuous

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there are a couple different times when

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we use it

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so first is for ongoing action where

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it's not clear or important when it's

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stopped

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so for example you want to read this one

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yeah i was cleaning all day long

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when did i start i don't know when did i

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stop

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not important

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i just know it