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Exodus74 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

My sentences are correct ?

I burned one's fingers when I had grabbed a hot frying pan.I felt pain.
  

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I felt pain. No. I burned my fingers when I grabbed a hot frying pan.

— Clive

  • I felt pain.
  • No.
  • I burned my fingers when I grabbed a hot frying pan.
  • It hurt.
  • Don't mix personal and impersonal pronouns.
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I burned one's fingers when I had grabbed a hot frying pan.I felt pain.
No.
I burned my fingers when I grabbed a hot frying pan. It hurt.


Don't mix personal and impersonal pronouns.
You don't need Past Perfect to make the sequence of eve
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In which cases I can tell I had grabbed a hot frying pan ?
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Consider these examples, in which the tense is necessary to make the sequence of events clear..

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It was 6 pm. I grabbed a hot frying pan. This means I grabbed it at 6 pm.

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It was
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Thank you I understand
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exodus74 I burned one's fingers when I had grabbed a hot frying pan.I felt pain.
If you have two events that occur in a certain order, the situation in when-clause is understood as the first of the two. Because of this understanding, you don't need the past perfect ("had grabbed"), but just the past ("grabbed") in the when-clause. The order of
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when I arrived the thief scared

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