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Answer — Exercise 7

2.3 - Stories in the news·New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

  1. Read the Active grammar box and answer question 1.
  2. Read rules A and B and find more examples of the Past Continuous in the news stories on pages 28-29. Then answer question 2.

Answer

  1. The underlined verbs describe something temporary and in progress.
  2. State verbs are not normally used in the continuous form, e.g. like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, know, understand, believe, remember.
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