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The duck included more than 400 pieces that allowed it to move its wings, quack, drink water, eat grains, digest, and evacuate. Apparently, Jacques de Vaucanson continued working on an automaton that could perform all the biological functions of a human being, such as digestion, blood circulation,breathing, among others, but could not finish it because the project was too ambitious for its time.

These and other automatons contributed to the development of robotics. Some of their original ideas are used in modern robots today.

Past Progressive

We use the past progressive to talk about a continuous action in the past. It can describe an action that started in the past and was interrupted by another action.

Affirmative subject + was/were + verb (-ing)+ object or complement Automatons were becoming more popular when modern robots were invented.

Negative

subject + wasn't/weren't + verb (-ing)+ object or complement Leonando da Vinci wasn't painting the Mona Lisa when he designed the Automa Cavaliere.

Interrogative

was/were + subject + venb (-ing)+ object or complement + ?Was Jacques de Vaucanson working on an automaton that could penform bodily functions?

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