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Yoong Liat Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

left / had left

0 00 Did you see two blue bags which I 01b00left / had left02b00 on the table? 02br
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00 Which verb in bold should I use? 02br
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00 Thank you very much.00 0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Yoong Liat12cite 10 Did you see two blue bags which I 11font 11b 10left / had left12b 12font 10 on the table? 12blockquote 10Hi Yoong,02br 00I'd say that both are ok. The past perfect stresses the fact that something happened before something else.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Yoong Liat12cite 10 Did you see two blue bags which I 11font 11b 10left / had left12b 12font 10 on the table?
  • 12blockquote 10Hi Yoong,02br 00I'd say that both are ok.
  • The past perfect stresses the fact that something happened before something else.
  • Since it's probably clear form the context, most people would just use the simple past, and tend to use the past perfect as little as possible.
  • 02br 00Now let's wait for natives and see their opinions 050010id1
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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite10 Did you see two blue bags which I 11font11b10left / had left12b12font10 on the table? 12blockquote
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00I'd say that both are ok. The past perfect stresses the fact that something happened before something
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0 01i00which I left / had left on the table02i02br
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00 Swan recommends tense simplification in such sentences, thus simple past, not past perfect.02br
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00 But both are possible. 0-
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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite10 Did you see two blue bags which I 11b10left / had left12b10 on the table? 12br
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10Which verb in bold should I use? 12br
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10Thank you very much.12blockquote
10Well, since YL in interested in British English, and since nobo
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10- put an article before "blue bags" because they're qualified by the relative article;12br
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10Sorry, I meant "relative clause" 050010id10
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0 Yeah Anonymous, you are right. I'm not sure of the use of the present perfect (it's difficult to understand how natives actually use that **** verb), but I would add an article. And without "which" it's better, but it's not wrong and maybe Yoong wanted to use it on purpose.02br
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00But Anonymous, I get the feeling that you are visiting and reading in this forum pretty re
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10But Anonymous, I get the feeling that you are visiting and reading in this forum pretty regularly. So why don't you register? Then you can have a nickname at least... Listen to me, go register 15112br
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