Can "already" be used with the past perfect progressive tense ?
This is from a grammar book: By the time we had lunch he had already jogged. (meaning he had finished jogging)
Is it possible to say: "By the time we had lunch he had already been jogging" (without any time reference like "for an hour") to express the same thing, that he had finished jogging?
I know "already" is used with past perfect, but I am asking because "he had already jogged" sounds strange to my ears, but maybe that is just me.
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olive file 673 By the time we had lunch he had already jogged. This is an odd sentence. olive file 673 Is it possible to say: "By the time we had lunch he had already been jogging" Yes, this is better.
- olive file 673 By the time we had lunch he had already jogged.
- This is an odd sentence.
- olive file 673 Is it possible to say: "By the time we had lunch he had already been jogging" Yes, this is better.
- You could put a comma after "lunch".
- olive file 673 because "he had already jogged" sounds strange to my ears, but maybe that is just me.
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olive file 673By the time we had lunch he had already jogged.
This is an odd sentence.
olive file 673Is it possible to say: "By the time we had lunch he had already been jogging"
Yes, this is better. You could put a comma after "lunch".
olive file 673because "he had already jogged" sound
0GPYBy the time we had lunch he had already jogged.
This is an odd sentence.
I should mention, of course, that it is the nature of the verb "jog" that makes it odd, not the grammatical patt
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