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Tipton Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

A few questions

can someone shed some light on these sentences?

She only won because I got cut.
She only won because I'd been cut.
She only won because I've been cut. 
  

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Approximately, these tenses mean: She only won because I got cut. The winning and the cutting both happened in the past. In normal sentence order the cutting happens after the winning.

— Ferdis

  • Approximately, these tenses mean: She only won because I got cut.
  • The winning and the cutting both happened in the past.
  • In normal sentence order the cutting happens after the winning.
  • ('because' also indicates the order of events, though not strictly, so this one could be ok as well...
  • ) She only won because I'd been cut.
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Approximately, these tenses mean:

She only won because I got cut.
The winning and the cutting both happened in the past. In normal sentence order the cutting happens after the winning. ('because' also indicates the order of events, though not strictly, so this one could be ok as well... still, I like the second better.)


She only won because I'd been cut.
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follow-up question Emotion: big smile

It had happened or It has happened

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It had happened
It happened in the past, before some other event in the past.

It has happened
It happened at some unspecified time in the past, probably not too long ago.
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