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01cite10Vincent Teo12cite10Can I say,12br10I think the sentence is fine. There's no need to add 'had' before 'cleaned'. 0-
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01cite10Vincent Teo12cite10Her bedroom became tidy after she cleaned it.12blockquote10 No. 01i00after02i00 means later in time. So you are saying that first she cleaned her bedroom, and then the bedroom (all by itself) became tidy, that is, made itself tidy. Things can't "become tidy", but p