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Hanuman_2000 Posted 20 years ago
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before

0Hello,02br
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00I have to write one sentence using the above. The srating word is "before".02br
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00Before the teacher come into the room, The students had sat down.02br
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00Shall I use "siple Past" with the word "before"? Any how I have to write the sentense using "simple past" and "past perfect".0-
  

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00I have to write the sentense using "simple past" and "past perfect"12blockquote
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00 The action that came first (farther back in time) takes the past perfect and the action that came later (not so far back in time) takes the simple past.02br
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00 The students sat down first (because it was before the te
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0There are 2 past events in your sentense. To demostrate the events properly, it should be described in past perfect which is the case. I would re-arrange it like this:02br
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01font00[The students02font00 01font00had sat down] [02font00 01font00before the te
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0Hello Sir,02br
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00What I want to know the pharase that follows the word "before" would be in "simple past".0-
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