Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Past continuous
Is it ungrammatical?
I was not driving very fast when the accident was happening.
I was not driving very fast when the accident was happening.
Top answer
Anonymous Is it ungrammatical? I was not driving very fast when the accident was happening. It's not so much ungrammatical as a bit strange.
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Anonymous Is it ungrammatical? I was not driving very fast when the accident was happening.It's not so much ungrammatical as a bit strange. Usually an accident is regarded as happening at a particular point in time, not stretched out over a period of time — except in those movies where they show an accident happening in slow motion. 'was happening' expresse
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