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JuniorWin Posted 20 years ago
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(1) She didn't raise this question anytime before.
(2) She never asked this question.

What is the difference between these two sentences as to their meaning?

Thanks,

JW
  

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in (1) you are assumed to have (it must be somewhere in the context) a reference point sometime in the past, before which something happened or did not happen in (2), the thing is valid during the whole of the considered past time

— Marius Hancu

  • in (1) you are assumed to have (it must be somewhere in the context) a reference point sometime in the past, before which something happened or did not happen in (2), the thing is valid during the whole of the considered past time
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in (1) you are assumed to have (it must be somewhere in the context) a reference point sometime in the past, before which something happened or did not happen

in (2), the thing is valid during the whole of the considered past time
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