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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Hadn't rained

Join these two sentences to make a complex sentence: It hadn't rained for three weeks. The seedlings wilted and died.
KS2 Complex Sentences | How to Join Simple Ones Together
Please explain the use of the tense- hadn't rain...
Is it because of "for the phrase"?
I was confused between simple past and perfect past in the example.
  

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Jigneshbharati Please explain the use of the tense- hadn't rain... The writer is placing the time of the lack of rain before some other event. Jigneshbharati Is it because of "for the phrase"?

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  • Jigneshbharati Please explain the use of the tense- hadn't rain...
  • The writer is placing the time of the lack of rain before some other event.
  • Jigneshbharati Is it because of "for the phrase"?
  • There is no use of the words "for the phrase" anywhere to be seen.
  • I don't know what you're talking about.
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JigneshbharatiPlease explain the use of the tense- hadn't rain...

The writer is placing the time of the lack of rain before some other event.

JigneshbharatiIs it because of "for the phrase"?

There is no use of the words "for the phrase" anywhere to be seen. I don't know what you're talking about.

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