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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Had - have
In an engineering report my husband is writing he has a sentence that contains "You asked me to review......" His assistant is adding the word had "you had asked me to review...." We believe we are right with excluding the word "had", however we are not sure why - other than it doesn't seem correct to have the word had with an "ed". Could you please clarify?
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It's difficult to say without full context. However, if you are simply referring to something that happened in the past, the past simple 'You asked' is the natural choice. It's your assistant who needs to justify the past perfect 'You had asked'.
- It's difficult to say without full context.
- However, if you are simply referring to something that happened in the past, the past simple 'You asked' is the natural choice.
- It's your assistant who needs to justify the past perfect 'You had asked'.
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It's difficult to say without full context. However, if you are simply referring to something that happened in the past, the past simple 'You asked' is the natural choice. It's your assistant who needs to justify the past perfect 'You had asked'.
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