curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-reported-speech/6838b48522b677e14ecfc47f.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What did the logs find that might have caused the crash?
A sudden hardware failure.
The cause mentioned is not related to hardware problems.
The database was getting too many requests.
The software was updated incorrectly.
There is no mention of software updates causing the crash.
There was a power outage.
Power issues are not discussed here.
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The Past Continuous tense (was/were + verb in the -ing form) describes an action that was happening over a period of time in the past. It is often used together with a Simple Past event to show that the continuous action was interrupted or happened before another event. For example:
She was working on the report when the computer crashed. – The action of working was ongoing when the crash (Simple Past) happened.
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