What is your favorite form of transportation?

Hello Shanyue,

Thank you for your comment. Whether an action is in the past, present or future heavily relies on the context, 了 doesn't always appear in sentences about past actions.

In this sentence: 人们曾早上通勤。曾 means 曾经 céngjīng, it means "once", "before", it's used to express an action happened some time in the past.

Hope it helps, let us know if you have any questions.

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Hello

I don't understand how this is the past:

past tense 婴儿在路上走。 "The baby walked on the road."

Also can you explain the 曾 in this sentence?

past tense 人们曾早上通勤。 "The people commuted in the morning."

Thank you.

Hi Emma,

Thank you for telling us.

Car

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Cho

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Car

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I received an email calling this throwback Thursday but I cannot access the lesson.

@蓝大卫,

飞行 can be a noun and a verb. It means voyage or to have a voyage. 飞翔 is only a verb, meaning to fly.

--Echo

The video says: 乘客正乘飞机飞行， but the lesson notes say 乘客正乘飞机飞翔。

Other than pronunciation, is there any fundamental difference between 飞行 and 飞翔?