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.
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.