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Too finicky 7 Posted 6 years ago
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Is this sentence grammatically correct-

Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he has ever come across.

Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he had ever come across.

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too finicky 7 Is this sentence grammatically correct- Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he has ever come across. Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he had ever come across. Thanks You need the second one (with 'had') because you're in the past with 'were'.

  • too finicky 7 Is this sentence grammatically correct- Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he has ever come across.
  • Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he had ever come across.
  • Thanks You need the second one (with 'had') because you're in the past with 'were'.
  • If you write 'has', you make a contradiction.
  • The reader gets confused about whether you're talking about the past or the present.
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too finicky 7

Is this sentence grammatically correct-

Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he has ever come across.

Pichai may have met many people but his teachers were the best people he had ever come across.

Thanks

You need the second one (with 'had') becau

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