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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
A question For GPY
"it is not "completion" in any sense that is useful for categorising these usages."
I have always thankful to you for your help and I have a question for you this time because while I read your reply, I found some unnatural sentence to me, so in 'in any sense that is...' that is a relative clause pronoun or a conjunction if it is a conjunction like the fact that she is..., I think that there should be a subject like in any sense that it is useful...and here the pronoun it is completion, right? I am sorry for not being smart this time again. Please forgive me and help me out again. Thank you so much.
I have always thankful to you for your help and I have a question for you this time because while I read your reply, I found some unnatural sentence to me, so in 'in any sense that is...' that is a relative clause pronoun or a conjunction if it is a conjunction like the fact that she is..., I think that there should be a subject like in any sense that it is useful...and here the pronoun it is completion, right? I am sorry for not being smart this time again. Please forgive me and help me out again. Thank you so much.
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" is a relative clause modifying "sense". It is essentially the same structure as "I would not date any girl who is taller than me".
- " is a relative clause modifying "sense".
- It is essentially the same structure as "I would not date any girl who is taller than me".
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"that is useful ..." is a relative clause modifying "sense". It is essentially the same structure as "I would not date any girl who is taller than me".
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"Completion" is expressed in a weak way, in the sense that the actions "gone" and "run away" are completed. However, you could say the same about any use of the past perfect, so it is not "completion" in any sense that is useful for categorising these usages, in my opinion.
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Again, I need your help and this time you are the only one who can save me.
For some reason,
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Hans51For some reason, I am really confused with 'these usages', which you mentioned in the last thread and I really would like to know if 'these usages' refer to 'gone and run away'"these usages" means uses of the past perfect tense, such as "had gone" and "had run away".
Hans51can I say that something can be added like categorising t
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Thank you so much. I cannot understand this sentence well yet.
so it is not "completion" in any sense that is useful for categorising these usages,
If you do not mind, could you explain this in an easier way?
Thank you so much as usual.
so it is not "completion" in any sense that is useful for categorising these usages,
If you do not mind, could you explain this in an easier way?
Thank you so much as usual.
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In my previous sentence I explained that the past perfect in your example expressed completion in what I called a "weak sense". Now I am saying that this "weak sense" of completion does not seem a useful way of categorising different types of use of the past perfect. This is because all uses of the past perfect express that kind of completion.
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GPYThis is because all uses of the past perfect express that kind of completion.Actually, it occurred to me later that this is not strictly true. For example, "I had lived in London for ten years" may be used in the case when you still lived in London. Even so, such quibbles are peripheral to the main point that I was trying to make.
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