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Past tense
Hello,
I am asking for some help with past tenses in the following examples.
The Examples are from the websites who teach English but no explanation.
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Past simple:
''My parents ate a lot of junk food when they were young''
shoudn't it be:
''My parents were eating a lot of junk food while they were young'' ?
or: ''We played volleyball in the afternoon''
- shoudn't it be: ''We were playing volleyball in the afternoon''?
1st Example was going on for few years,
2nd Example was going on for some time,
So why the Websites wrote in Past Simple instead of Continous?
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