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Sharan Yadav R Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Had failed is necessary?

The forest department seems to be in a tearing hurry to fix a burgeoning and complex problem that it ""had failed""" to address in the last few years.

Can we just use "failed" in place of "had failed" in the above statement???
  

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a problem that it has failed to address in the last few years is the expected form. CJ

  • a problem that it has failed to address in the last few years is the expected form.
  • CJ
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a problem that it has failed to address in the last few years

is the expected form.

CJ

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