About past perfect
I’m really confused.
My teacher in school says “when you tell someone that you was learning something when you were little, use I learned?when I was a child.”
But some people say “you can also I had learned ?when I was a child.”
What is difference between two?
Also, my teacher says “You can’t use when I was a child with past perfect” But why?
Top answer
The past perfect is used when you are going further back into the past, relative to something that is already in the past. For example: In 2001, I visited England. I had learned English when I was a child, so I found it easy to get around.
- The past perfect is used when you are going further back into the past, relative to something that is already in the past.
- For example: In 2001, I visited England.
- I had learned English when I was a child, so I found it easy to get around.
- ) If there is no such sense of "going further back into the past", then do not use the past perfect.
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The past perfect is used when you are going further back into the past, relative to something that is already in the past. For example:
In 2001, I visited England. I had learned English when I was a child, so I found it easy to get around.
(In this example the past perfect is not mandatory but is allowed.) If there is no such sense of "going further back into the past", then
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