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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Is this sentence grammatically correct?
He has already returned the sample to the shop when he went to the shop last time.
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anonymous has already returned ... when he went This is not correct. If your main clause has the present perfect tense, you cannot have a subordinate clause of time in the same sentence.
- anonymous has already returned ...
- when he went This is not correct.
- If your main clause has the present perfect tense, you cannot have a subordinate clause of time in the same sentence.
- Part of your correction should include the past perfect.
- He had already returned the sample to the shop the last time he was there.
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anonymous has already returned ... when he went
This is not correct. If your main clause has the present perfect tense, you cannot have a subordinate clause of time in the same sentence.
Part of your correction should include the past perfect.
He had already returned the sample to the shop the last time he
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