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PreciousJones Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

New York

I had been working in New York until a few months ago I quit my job for personal reasons.

Is this sentence ok?
  

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This is how I'd say it, I wouldn't use the past perfect here. I was working in New York until a few months ago when I quit my job for personal reasons. Floralex

— Floralex

  • This is how I'd say it, I wouldn't use the past perfect here.
  • I was working in New York until a few months ago when I quit my job for personal reasons.
  • Floralex
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This is how I'd say it, I wouldn't use the past perfect here.

I was working in New York until a few months ago when I quit my job for personal reasons.

Floralex
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Why does the verb "quit" is in a present tense though the 'quitting' belongs to the past?
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PreciousJonesI had been working in New York until a few months ago I quit my job for personal reasons.
Grammatically, it's text book. It's correct, two events happened in the past which are no longer true.

But I would reword it: I had been working in New York until I quit my job for personal reasons a few months ago.
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dimsumexpress
PreciousJonesI had been working in New York until a few months ago I quit my job for personal reasons.

Grammatically, it's text book. It's correct, two events happened in the past which are no longer true.
But I would reword it: I had been working in New York until I quit my job for personal reasons a few months a
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PreciousJonesSo you're saying that it's grammatically correct and if I say it to someone during conversation they wouldn't think that it's weird or sounds funny? So why did you have to reword it?
I am rather critical, even to myself. Having said that, I would use past perfect in your sentence.
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dimsumexpress
PreciousJonesSo you're saying that it's grammatically correct and if I say it to someone during conversation they wouldn't think that it's weird or sounds funny? So why did you have to reword it?

I am rather critical, even to myself. Having said that, I would use past perfect in your sentence.
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