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Heidi
Are they the same? 'My alarm didn't work/wasn't working this morning
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2017년 4월 25일 오전 5:54
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There's no reason to use past continuous here, so don't say "wasn't working".
"Didn't work"? That's okay, but the natural way to say this is "My alarm didn't go off." (but alarms don't just fail to go off. The phone either died because you didn't charge it, or you set the alarm incorrectly.)
2017년 4월 25일
My alarm didn't work this morning - Simple Past
My alarm wasn't working this morning - Past Continuous
2017년 4월 25일
1. happened and finished.
2. still not working, start on the past and continuing
2017년 4월 25일
1. the first one is past simple >> an action or something happened in the past and ended
2. the second sentence is past continuous >> an action or something happened in the past and still not finished till now
3. so the first sentence is the right one .
2017년 4월 25일
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