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Irini galanaki Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Does it make sense?

HI!
I would like to ask something about grammar.
Can I say: 'I really enjoy gardening after it rained.' ?
Is it correct?
Thank you!
  

Top answer

No. The tenses don't match. '

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No. The tenses don't match.

'I really enjoy gardening after it rains.'

'I really enjoy gardening after it has rained.'

'I really enjoyed gardening after it rained.'

'I really enjoyed gardening after it had rained.'
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Rover_KE'I really enjoy gardening after it had rained.'
Can you please explain this one? I understood the rest, but this one had me a little confuse. How can you use the past perfect following the simple present?
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Thanks for your reply.
But can I ask something more? When we use 'after' then we have sentence we understand that this happened before something else but when we have present simple in the beginning can we have past perfect in the close which begins with 'after'....?
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phxsunstoon Rover_KE'I really enjoy gardening after it had rained.'Can you please explain this one? I understood the rest, but this one had me a little confuse. How can you use the past perfect following the simple present?
It was a typo, now corrected.
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fivejedjonIt was a typo, now corrected.
I am more than happy to hear that. I was panicking for a moment.
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Hi Irini
Welcome in the English Forum.
In your sentence "'I really enjoy gardening after it rained." you mixed up two time forms, which have a different meaning.

'I really enjoy gardening after it rains.'
Means you enjoy gardening after rain in general/always

'I really enjoyed gardening after it rained.'
Means you enjoyed gardening after it rained on a specific t
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Thank you Gomez123! You did help me!

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