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Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

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I BLANK BLANK we could do a quick postmortem of the design project.

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was

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This is the auxiliary verb used to form the Past Continuous in the singular first-person form.

thinking

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This is the main verb in the Past Continuous. It is used to talk about a process that happens on your mind.

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The Past Continuous tense is used to describe actions or thoughts that were in progress at a specific time in the past.

This tense is often used to describe background actions or ongoing processes in the past. The structure is was/were + verb ending in -ing.

In this sentence, I was thinking shows that Linda's thought about doing a postmortem was in progress at a specific time. Another example:

He was reviewing the report when the meeting started. - Meaning that the action of reviewing the report was in progress and another situation interrupted it.

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