How to write a sentence properly when three or four incidents occurred in the past?
For example:
I knew he had worked in the company for five years before he got a promotion.
(Someone worked for a company for five years. After that, he got a promotion. I knew about it. )
We knew he thought the patient had died before the doctor came.
(At first, the patient died. Then the doctor came. Someone thought about this incident. We knew someone thought about it.)
Are my sentences grammatically correct? How to maintain the sequence of tense? Which tense structure should I follow?
Top answer
For example: I knew he had worked in the company for five years before he got a promotion. << OK (Someone worked for a company for five years. After that, he got a promotion.
- For example: I knew he had worked in the company for five years before he got a promotion.
- << OK (Someone worked for a company for five years.
- After that, he got a promotion.
- I knew about it.
- )<< OK We knew he thought the patient had died before the doctor came.
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For example:
I knew he had worked in the company for five years before he got a promotion. << OK
(Someone worked for a company for five years. After that, he got a promotion. I knew about it. )<< OK
We knew he thought the patient had died before the doctor came. << This doesn't tell us that the patient died.
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