curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-help-a-coworker-troubleshoot-on-github/65b2b3ea62a86838c216db73.md
In this sentence, Tom uses the past continuous tense I was debugging to describe an ongoing action in the past.
He then switches to simple past I realized to state a specific action completed in the past.
Understanding how these tenses work together helps clarify the sequence of events.
Thanks, Maria. I BLANK debugging it when I BLANK that it was a simple configuration error in the code.
was
Part of the past continuous tense, showing the ongoing action of debugging.
realized
Simple past indicates the moment Tom understood the problem.
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