By Past simple, Stative verbs

«Tom is being a rich student. vs Tom will have been being a rich student. vs Tom will be being a rich student.» As you should have read, the Present Continuous tense is used to express an on-going (active) process, that is happening at the moment of speech (the present). But being a...

CalifJim wrote:after while only stative verbs like "sit" can be used in the past simple tense?Yes, that sounds like a reasonable generalization.Nevertheless, dynamic verbs might be used after "while", but they would then have to be interpretable in a non-event sort of way. This pattern occurs...

after while only stative verbs like "sit" can be used in the past simple tense? Yes, that sounds like a reasonable generalization. Nevertheless, dynamic verbs might be used after "while", but they would then have to be interpretable in a non-event sort of way. This pattern occurs with...

From what you wrote, Jim, can we generalize and say that 1- after while only stative verbs like "sit" can be used in the past simple tense? 2- "The accident happened when they were going to school." is wrong and "when" had better be replaced with "while"? 3- "when" can be used instead of...

Hello Mowgli Mowgli wrote: I would prefer past simple "Where were you?" because B isn´t abroad or away any more, they couldn´t have this conversation otherwise.To me, "I went to Malta for a 3 week holiday" sounds natural as the answer. I interpret A might ask "Where have you been?" because A...