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                        Prepositions for MP students ( ABTA Test Papers )

• And the one thing that came to my mind was to teach children. It was not because I was specially fitted for this work of teaching.I have not had the full benefit of a regular education. ( Page-274 )
• The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal mangrove forest in the world. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (290 )
• All along Subhash was a meritorious student. he stood second in the entrance examination. He studied for only eight months with intense concentration and came out fourth in the I.C.S. ( Page-305 )
• In summer the people of Balurghat have a chance to taste rich and ripe mangoes. Mango-sellers bring mangoes from Malda to Balurghat by train. ( Page no-321 )
• King Arthur ruled for many and grew old with time.Many of his trusted knights had perished during their adventures. The King gave his magic sword the Excalibur , to a trusted  knight.( Page no-340 0
• In the third week of January , 1941, befooling the British police , he escaped from internment in his own house. ( Page no-361 )
• According to a report about 18 villagers have already died of Encephalitis in the last two months at Kandran village in the Northern part of  Malda. ( Page no-382 )
• The disappearance of Subhash  Chandra Bose on August, 8 ,1945 still remains an unsolved mystery. There is no definite evidence about an unfortunate plane crash or Netaji being in the plane at all. ( Page n0-407 )
• A few days ago I met a man on my birthday who advised me to listen to classical music. ( Page no- 441 )

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Let us again discuss about the application of  the Past Simple Tense and Past Continuous Tense. Both the tenses refer to completed works in the past. Most of the time we are talking about such actions, we use the Past simple/ indefinite.
      I lived there for five years.
      I only found out this a few moments ago.
      I asked how but she did not know anything.
      The company sacked 50 workers last year.
When we want to emphasize the continuity of the action we should use past continuous tense.
     Everybody was talking about it all the evening.
    They were really trying hard to survive..
    I was thinking about you the other day
    Were you expecting that to happen?
When we use the two tenses together we use them for different purposes. We use the past continuous to talk about the background action and the past simple/indefinte to talk about the shorter completed action.
     It was raining hard when we left the stadiuum.
     I was sleeping when you rang.
     He was going out for lunch when i saw him.
     The company was doing well when i last visited it.

I hope this lesson on past tense will help you.
Happy learning.
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