I was cleaning all day

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important

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i just know it lasted a long time during

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the day

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i was cleaning

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all day long

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and

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again is this the present or the past

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or the future or the future no the

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future doesn't exist yet

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it's the past maybe it was yesterday

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maybe it was three months ago but

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either way it was in the past and i was

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cleaning all day

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another one where it's um oops got a

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little extra bracket in there for fun

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um so brian was working the whole week

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when did he start working we don't know

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maybe he started on monday maybe i

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started on tuesday it's not exactly

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specific

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um but that's not important

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we just know that i was working the

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whole week

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um

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so again ongoing action where it's not

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important when it started or ended we

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also use this to set the scene so we saw

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this a little bit with um

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we were traveling on the train when it

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suddenly stopped

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so

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you're sort of painting a picture

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with this beginning part

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kind of imagine you're telling a story

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to somebody right

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so that's what they what we mean with

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setting the scene you can imagine like a

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movie scene right that's like the the

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picture of the movie that's a scene and

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so you're setting a scene you're giving

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context to the situation and the world

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around you at that moment we were

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traveling on the train you can envision

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us sitting on the train when it suddenly

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stopped

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okay what's another

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ah i was sitting in the park listening

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to music

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when this cute dog came up to me

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so i'm giving you you can see

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the picture of what i'm doing i'm in the

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park listening to music and

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now a dog is here

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yeah you're painting that picture

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what was happening you know

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giving it context

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all right

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and then um

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and also we use the past continuous to

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show one action interrupting another

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again we saw this with the train i was i

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was traveling or we were traveling on

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the train

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when it suddenly stopped

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the stopping action interrupted

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the traveling same thing with marcus was

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cooking

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when the guests arrived

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um so

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they didn't stop him from

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um

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from cooking

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but that happened during his cooking

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time yeah another example

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i was working

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when you called me