0
Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

how long question

is this question correct or not?
how long had she looked after you?
i mean he is an adult and she stopped looking after him twenty years ago!
which is the best question to know that?
  

Top answer

As per my knowledge I would use ' After how long did she look at you'? I am not an English teacher.

— Nakool

  • As per my knowledge I would use ' After how long did she look at you'?
  • I am not an English teacher.
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

4 Answers
0
As per my knowledge I would use ' After how long did she look at you'?
I am not an English teacher.
0
0
No.
Say eg How long has it been since she stopped looking after you?

Clive
0
0
Anonymous is this question correct or not?how long had she looked after you?i mean he is an adult and she stopped looking after him twenty years ago!which is the best question to know that?
A: She looked after me years ago, and I'm 45 now.
B: How long did she look after you?

A: She looked after me until Janice took over.
B: How long had she lo
0
0
I have to say, the first two replies changes the entire meaning of the sentence.

it's better to use 'did' than 'had', because it is already apparent that we are taking about the period of a certain action, as we can assume from the phrase how long. had is used only to express a certain action/incident which happens after another action ended in the past. As you got only one
0

Related Questions