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Old June 07, 2009, 08:50 PM
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The reason is that an action in progress was interrupted. The progressive tenses are used to convey 'being in the very act of doing something'.

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Why can't it be..........Estudiaba cuando entró el profesor.... (it's an incomplete sentence but.....it sounds right to me. Would I be breaking a grammar rule?

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It's a matter of style to avoid it, but it's a right sentence, and to my mind, gramatically correct as well.
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En España no se usa "estar retrasado" para decir que llegas tarde. Una persona retrasada es una persona que no se ha desarrollado bien.

El autobús va retrasado o va con retraso.
Yo llego tarde, voy con retraso o me retraso.
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I believe that the sentence correctly written is Estube hasta tarde, I feel that the build of the verb wasn't the more correct without this word hasta, this word complete the sentence and sound well.
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