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Okay shh Members were on five of eleven here in

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the siri's He was making Let's go down the paragraph

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right here when trouble was planning that's muller painting in

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seventeen eighty six decided not to attend a photographic account

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Rather he was making his goal the preservation of another

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nation founders So we've got a tense issue Not a

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tense issue but a verb tense issue something's odd He

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was he's in the process of doing it all those

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years ago He did it all those years ago So

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think about this about reaching a goal Yes may take

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a while but deciding on the goal in the first

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place is something that happens just once and then it's

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over So you did it you made it and then

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you were done to describe troubles goal making Then we've

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got to use the simple past tense made so the

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answer there is the though he had been making is

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a type of past tense past perfect continuous technically it's

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used to emphasize that one event was happening before another

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related event eventually happened however the senses simply stating that

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trumbull chose a goal Not that he had been in

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the process of choosing one like that was his hobby

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all day long choosing goals Likewise although he was making

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a is a type of past tense you have a

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past Continuous Makes it sound like trumbull was simultaneously planning

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and making his goal at the same time The present

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tense doesn't work here either because everything the sentence described

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happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far 00:01:23.263 --> [endTime] away

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