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floona

help please

we .......................(not,go) out because it .................(rain)

how can i complete the sentences correctly using past progressive

we didn �t go out because it was raining or

we weren �t go out because it rained

and why ??

16 Sep 2014

sasuna

I think the first one is the correct

16 Sep 2014

yanogator

sasuna is correct.

The past progressive is often used when one action (in the simple past) interrupts another which is ongoing (past progressive). This is just the negation of that.

Consider: We went out while it was raining. (Going out "interrupts" the raining)

The negation is: We didn �t go out while it was raining.

Now if you substitute "because" for "while", you have your sentence.

We didn �t go out because it was raining.

Bruce

16 Sep 2014