Answer:
The main difference between past simple and past continuous tense is that:
- we use<u> past simple tense</u> when something happened at some time in past. We also commonly use this tense with past time adverbs (yesterday, last night, two days ago, etc.)
For example: John called his friend yesterday.
- we use <u>past continuous tense</u> if an action occurred in the past and <u>lasted for a period of time.</u>
Example: I was reading a book all day yesterday.
We used past continuous tense because the action of reading lasted for some time (a whole day in this case).
1. A title for this excerpt of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Inaugural Address is 'No Markets for their produce.' This title will help you to remember what this passage is about and remind you of the Great Depression's state.
2.Questions I'd like answered are:
After this excerpt, did he propose a solution? And did it work? (Obviously something did, but how long did that take?)
3.**'the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side;'** This is a similie to understand or visualise the state of the economy. *; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade;* Metaphor to show the weariness of the time.
4. Our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income;..the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
5. Some other marks that will help you understand the information are "In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income<span>..." This information is most important because it gives you not only a visual, but also an emotional feeling at that time.</span>
He spend 1hr 85 or 1.85 hours per day
