Had both been equally
He started to walk again, dazed, overwhelmed by the closeness of his escape. He realised that he must have been following the rhino for a while and that they had both been equally surprised to find one another. When the rhino had eventually seen him, it had charged, but it had really only meant to get away.
I saw the above in my son's reading book- The Akimbo adventurers.
Could you please explain the use of the past perfect in all those sentences (had both been, had eventually seen, had charged, had really meant)?
The train had left when we reached the station. I still remember this example from school days but I can't work out from the context those two points in the past.
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Jigneshbharati Could you please explain the use of the past perfect in all those sentences (had both been, had eventually seen, had charged, had really meant)? Those things are further back in the past, relative to the time of "he realised".
- Jigneshbharati Could you please explain the use of the past perfect in all those sentences (had both been, had eventually seen, had charged, had really meant)?
- Those things are further back in the past, relative to the time of "he realised".
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JigneshbharatiCould you please explain the use of the past perfect in all those sentences (had both been, had eventually seen, had charged, had really meant)?
Those things are further back in the past, relative to the time of "he realised".
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