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CBE 2.09 | Canadian spaceman: Chris Hadfield | Languages focus: past tenses

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The Obsession of Ryan

When he watched the first moon landing live on TV, he became obsessed with flight and space travel. As soon as he could, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. While training there, he got his glider pilot licence. So was training, which tense, which verb form is this Mark? This is a past continuous. It is ongoing. And when we use these tenses together, we are showing that they happen at the same time.

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