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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Grammar question

Hi, wanted a clarification
Is the statement I had been to London last week correct? What is its tense?
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No, this is incorrect. Past perfect should be used carefully. It signifies past events with one preceeding another.

— Anonymous

  • No, this is incorrect.
  • Past perfect should be used carefully.
  • It signifies past events with one preceeding another.
  • I had lived in England for 10 years before relocating to Hong Kong 6 month ago.
  • For your sentence, a simple past tense " I was in London last week " is adequate.
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No, this is incorrect. Past perfect should be used carefully. It signifies past events with one preceeding another. I had lived in England for 10 years before relocating to Hong Kong 6 month ago.

For your sentence, a simple past tense " I was in London last week " is adequate.
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AnonymousIs the statement I had been to London last week correct? What is its tense?
It's past perfect, and it's not correct. The past perfect tense measures time from a point in the past, and "last week" measures time from the moment of utterance, so you have an inconsistency. You need this:

I had been to London the week before.

CJ
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