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JKBelieve Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Confused about the use of different tenses in a sentence...
0 "Instead of reaching out, I had withdrawn and in a way Jerri had done the same. 01 b 01 u 00 We were both feeling inadequate 02 u 02 b 00 and had been unable to say it." 02 br
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00 Shouldn't the embolded and underlined words be instead "We had both been feeling inadequate"??? 02 br
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00 I felt the sentence was grammatically wrong but you people are the real experts. Please help me. Thanx ^^ 0-
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00 Shouldn't the embolded and underlined words be instead "We had both been feeling inadequate"??? 02 br
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00 I felt the sentence was grammatically wrong but you people are the real experts. Please help me. Thanx ^^ 0-
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0 The first sentence sets the action in the past. If you then use your form in the next sentence you are taking the action of feeling indadequate back even further in the past. They were feeling inadequate at the time of the action of the first sentence.
- 0 The first sentence sets the action in the past.
- If you then use your form in the next sentence you are taking the action of feeling indadequate back even further in the past.
- They were feeling inadequate at the time of the action of the first sentence.
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0 The first sentence sets the action in the past. If you then use your form in the next sentence you are taking the action of feeling indadequate back even further in the past. They were feeling inadequate at the time of the action of the first sentence. 0-
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