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Danil Markov Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Need a little help.

Hello everybody. I have a question. When I use Past Perfect, can I be thinking like it happened with result in the past. For example, "I gave them some of the candies I had bought". For me it's like I bought some candies and I had them. So I could give you them. Is it correct thinking like that? Or I should be thinking like it happened in the past and an another action had happened before?

  

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Danil Markov "I gave them some of the candies I had bought". Your sentence means that you had bought the candies before you gave some of them to some people. CB

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  • Danil Markov "I gave them some of the candies I had bought".
  • Your sentence means that you had bought the candies before you gave some of them to some people.
  • CB
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Danil Markov"I gave them some of the candies I had bought".

Your sentence means that you had bought the candies before you gave some of them to some people.

CB

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Danil Markov. When I use Past Perfect, can I be thinking like it happened with result in the past. For example, "I gave them some of the candies I had bought". For me it's like I bought some candies and I had them. So I could give you them. Is it correct thinking like that?

That is too much thinking. Your use there of past perfect is merely an emphatic one

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