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Rashid rajal Posted 10 years ago
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Two years before now I had lived/ had been living for 10 years or since 2000.
Is that can be used this way or not.
Is that can be used this way or not.
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I don't understand what you're trying to say, and the math doesn't work out. If you mean "Two years ago, I had been living for 10 years" it seems to be a very strange way of saying that you are twelve years old. OR do you mean something more specific, like "Two years ago, I had been living in Paris for 10 years"?
- I don't understand what you're trying to say, and the math doesn't work out.
- If you mean "Two years ago, I had been living for 10 years" it seems to be a very strange way of saying that you are twelve years old.
- OR do you mean something more specific, like "Two years ago, I had been living in Paris for 10 years"?
- And ten years before two years ago was not 2000, it was 2004.
- "Two years before now" should almost certainly be "two years ago," but I'm really not sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it.
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I don't understand what you're trying to say, and the math doesn't work out. If you mean "Two years ago, I had been living for 10 years" it seems to be a very strange way of saying that you are twelve years old. OR do you mean something more specific, like "Two years ago, I had been living in Paris for 10 years"?
And ten years before two years ago was not 2000, it was 2004.
And ten years before two years ago was not 2000, it was 2004.
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Ok sorry for not being specific.
I wanted to say that I lived for ten years somewhere but these ten years were complited two years ago. Ten years has been completed two years ago. I tried to mention point of time in past when some thing was finished after ten years.
I wanted to say that I lived for ten years somewhere but these ten years were complited two years ago. Ten years has been completed two years ago. I tried to mention point of time in past when some thing was finished after ten years.
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The least confusing to me would be this:
I had already lived 10 years in [name the place] before [moving / I moved] here two years ago.
The underlined words serve as the past reference point that justifies the use of "had lived".
CJ
I had already lived 10 years in [name the place] before [moving / I moved] here two years ago.
The underlined words serve as the past reference point that justifies the use of "had lived".
CJ
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