質問: なぜ進行形なのでしょうか my daughter has a master's degree in education and spent three years as a nanny when she was an undergraduate. she recently began her first teaching job with second-grade children. the principal is terrific. however, there is an older teacher who has been at this school for years, and she is making my daughter's life miserable. this teacher runs the show. my daughter quit going to the teachers lounge, because it was a place for gossiping about other teachers and parents and speaking negatively about the children. she was pulled into the principal's office and informed that the other teachers found her "cold" and unsociable because she wasn't going to the teachers lounge. she wasn't going to the teachers loungeは文全体が過去形なので過去形になっているのは分かるのですが、なぜ進行形なのでしょうか?よろしくお願いします
回答: 進行形で書かれていると、そのときの彼女の意思が(読む人に)伝わってくる効果があります。