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Could anyone tell whether these sentences are gramatically correct or not-

1. "She went to the college the other day when she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on her degree"

2. "After she had collected her degree, she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on her degree"

Also should i be using has been in the above sentences?

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too finicky 71. "She went to the college the other day when she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on her degree"

Every sentence ends with a mark of punctuation. I would use "diploma" instead of "degree": "She went to the college the other day when she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on her diploma."

too finicky 72. "After she had collected her degree, she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on her degree"

That is not wrong, but it is not very natural to repeat "her diploma": "After she had collected her diploma, she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on it."

too finicky 7Also should i be using has been in the above sentences?

The pronoun "I" is always capitalized by convention because the letter is so small otherwise.

As they stand, no. The first sentence's tenses are normal. In the second, you want to be sure that the past perfect is called for, and if not, you still would not use the continuous but the simple past: "After she collected her diploma, she found out that her father's name had been misspelled on it." At the risk of confusing you, if you wrote in the narrative present, it would be "After she collects her diploma, she finds out that her father's name has been misspelled on it."

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