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Didiwantsomemore Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Choose the tense

"When I came home, my little sister" Emotion: sleep. How can I choose from three tenses(past cont,past perfect,past simple) if two of it are correct. I am given the sentence without full text. What words in that sentence help me to make right choice?

  

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The clue is in the verb in first clause. When I came home, Is that an event in the past, the present or the future? It defines a point in time of the action in the main clause.

  • The clue is in the verb in first clause.
  • When I came home, Is that an event in the past, the present or the future?
  • It defines a point in time of the action in the main clause.
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The clue is in the verb in first clause.

When I came home, 

Is that an event in the past, the present or the future? It defines a point in time of the action in the main clause.

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