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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Had ended
Hi.
He left before the meeting had ended.
There is the past perfect had ended in the sentence which should denote the action initiated before the other action, here left. It doesn't, instead it follows the simple past action. Is it that there is a notion that the meeting hadn't ended which was the first (unfulfilled) action with left as the second (fulfilled) one?
Thank you.
He left before the meeting had ended.
There is the past perfect had ended in the sentence which should denote the action initiated before the other action, here left. It doesn't, instead it follows the simple past action. Is it that there is a notion that the meeting hadn't ended which was the first (unfulfilled) action with left as the second (fulfilled) one?
Thank you.
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Anonymous Is it that there is a notion that the meeting hadn't ended which was the first (unfulfilled) action with left as the second (fulfilled) one? You can look at it that way. Or you can say that this grammatical pattern is used for interrupting actions.
- Anonymous Is it that there is a notion that the meeting hadn't ended which was the first (unfulfilled) action with left as the second (fulfilled) one?
- You can look at it that way.
- Or you can say that this grammatical pattern is used for interrupting actions.
- The leaving interrupts the progress of the meeting.
- ) The meeting had not come to its conclusion yet when the leaving occurred.
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Anonymous Is it that there is a notion that the meeting hadn't ended which was the first (unfulfilled) action with left as the second (fulfilled) one?You can look at it that way. Or you can say that this grammatical pattern is used for interrupting actions.
The leaving interrupts the progress of the meeting. (Not literally, of course.) The meeting
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