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What is a difference between 'I was riding my bike all day yesterday.' and 'I rode my bike all day yesterday.'?
I'm gonna just quote A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, with added emphasis:
SIMPLE PRESENT: Joan sings well. [1]
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE: Joan is singing well. [2]
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What is a difference between 'I was riding my bike all day yesterday.' and 'I rode my bike all day yesterday.'?
The difference is grammatical aspect:
In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, as denoted by a verb, extends over time. Perfective aspect is ...
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What is a difference between 'I was riding my bike all day yesterday.' and 'I rode my bike all day yesterday.'?
The simple and continuous forms of all verbs have their respective nuances and you should decide what you want the sentence to mean, and then choose the appropriate form:
All simple forms of the verb ...
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What is a difference between 'I was riding my bike all day yesterday.' and 'I rode my bike all day yesterday.'?
The majority of the time you use past continuous is when you are discussing about an event happened in past during the middle of something.
Eg: I was riding my bike when a man stepped out into the ...
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Past and present perfect tense in scientific articles
An advice strongly reiterated to me to use the past participle, is neutrality.
To state the state of the door, not that the door is being painted.
The door is painted in Scene 2 Act 5.
To state the ...
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What's the difference between 'hanged' and 'hung'?
The verb to hang has three roots.
(1) the Old English strong hón ( < hâhan ), heng, hangen , (hǫngen ), transitive and strong;
(2) the Old English weak hangian , hangode , -od , (also hǫng- ), ...
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What's the difference between 'hanged' and 'hung'?
The key phrase there is in effigy. As TfD notes, this means "symbolically," or more specifically "in the form of an effigy," a "a crude figure or dummy representing a hated ...
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