Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Mrs. Perez had been in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job.
The original and correct since is:
Mrs. Perez was in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job.
I think the first one is correct also. Two actions happened in the past. She was in their class for three months before she left school.
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anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct? Yes. CJ
- anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct?
- Yes.
- CJ
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[1] Mrs. Perez had been in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job.
[2] Mrs. Perez was in our class for three months, but then she left school to get a job.
Yes, [1] is grammatically correct, but you might say that the perfect tense is redundant because the past/anterior meaning is conveyed by “then she left”. For that reason, [
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