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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Had or have?

Sentence: In your mail on 13th October, which can be read at the end of this mail, you had told me that my unsuccessful recharge of xyz amount will be credited back to my bank account in 7 working days.

***"zyz amount" can be filled with any amount with any currency like $50 etc. I have omitted it for some reasons.

Question: So what is confusing me here? I am confused between "had told" (higlighted in black in the sentence) and "have told". Earlier when I was writing in flow I used "have told" but during proof read I found that "had told" looks more correct but it appears a bit awkward type also in reading. I am also not sure "had told"would be a right choice there. So I decided to land up here and seek the help from/of(?) native English speakers Emotion: smile. Please help me.

On Googling I found this link but I did not get it and it confused my further with its "least used" remark http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/using-had-done-in-english/

Thanks
  

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Hi, Sentence: In your mail on 13th October, which can be read at the end of this mail, you had told me that my unsuccessful recharge of xyz amount will be credited back to my bank account in 7 working days. ***"zyz amount" can be filled with any amount with any currency like $50 etc. I have omitted it for some reasons.

— Clive

  • Hi, Sentence: In your mail on 13th October, which can be read at the end of this mail, you had told me that my unsuccessful recharge of xyz amount will be credited back to my bank account in 7 working days.
  • ***"zyz amount" can be filled with any amount with any currency like $50 etc.
  • I have omitted it for some reasons.
  • Question: So what is confusing me here?
  • I am confused between "had told" (higlighted in black in the sentence) and "have told" .
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Hi,

Sentence: In your mail on 13th October, which can be read at the end of this mail, you had toldme that my unsuccessful recharge of xyz amount will be credited back to my bank account in 7 working days.

***"zyz amount" can be filled with any amount with any currency like $50 etc. I have omitted it for some reasons.
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Sentence: In your mail on 13th October, which can be read at the end of this mail, you told me that my unsuccessful recharge of xyz amount will be credited back to my bank account in 7 working days.

The simple past is all you need, and it sounds much better.
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Anonymousyou had told me that ... will would be credited ....
As shown.

Anonymousconfused ... with its "least used" remark
least used tense = the tense which is used less often than all the other tenses.

CJ
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CliveThe use of the Past Perect is to indicate that an event happened before some later point in the past. There is no such later point here, so don't use Past Perfect.
Ok, thanks everybody. I got it [Y]. Will do what you have suggested.
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Hi.

Consider these examples.

eg Tom came home at 6 pm yesterday. His wife cooked dinner. Sounds like she cooked it after 6 pm.

eg Tom came home at 6 pm yesterday. His wife had cooked dinner. She cooked it bef
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