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Whatchadoin Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Had kept/had bought
He had kept the secret for so long. - Does this mean that the keeping started at some point in the past and lasted up to the moment of the utterance?
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He had bought the house because he had always wanted to tear it down. - This means that he bought the house sometime in the past?
Are the past perfect in these two sentences used differently? The first sentence shows us that he'd kept the secret for some time in the past while the second sentence only shows us an event that happened sometime in the past. It doesn't show us any trace of a duration.
Can you help me with this?
Thanks.
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He had bought the house because he had always wanted to tear it down. - This means that he bought the house sometime in the past?
Are the past perfect in these two sentences used differently? The first sentence shows us that he'd kept the secret for some time in the past while the second sentence only shows us an event that happened sometime in the past. It doesn't show us any trace of a duration.
Can you help me with this?
Thanks.
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I am unclear what it is that you don't understand. I do not think that the past perfect is used differently in these two sentances, but I am not a grammatical expert - I am just a native Englasih speaker.
- I am unclear what it is that you don't understand.
- I do not think that the past perfect is used differently in these two sentances, but I am not a grammatical expert - I am just a native Englasih speaker.
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I am unclear what it is that you don't understand. I do not think that the past perfect is used differently in these two sentances, but I am not a grammatical expert - I am just a native Englasih speaker.
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