How Does Over & During [How to Use Over & During] Work?

"Over & During is like having two different ways to tell a story about time."

Imagine you're playing with building blocks. If you say "over", it's like saying the action happened on top of or throughout a certain period. Like if you built your tower over 10 minutes, that means you spent those 10 minutes working on it.

Now, if you say "during", it's like saying the action happened inside a specific time frame. So if you built your tower during lunchtime, that means you started and finished building while you were eating your sandwich.

• Over is like a long, slow ride on a slide, it takes time to get down.
• During is like a quick hop on a trampoline, it happens in the middle of something else.

So if someone says, "She read a book over the weekend," that means she spent the whole weekend reading. But if they say, "She read a book during lunch," that means she took some time to read while she was eating her sandwich.