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Anon006 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

I’d expected and I expected

What’s the difference here:

It’s going to take a bit longer than I had expected.

and

It’s going to take a bit longer than I expected.

  

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The first seems unnecessary if not incorrect: there is no call for past perfect, since no other past event appears in the context.

  • The first seems unnecessary if not incorrect: there is no call for past perfect, since no other past event appears in the context.
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The first seems unnecessary if not incorrect: there is no call for past perfect, since no other past event appears in the context.

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