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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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0Not until my mother ....... ........ I .........the home for the meeting at the Paul's.02br
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00A)came-did-leave02br
00B)came-had-left02br
00C)came-have-left02br
00D)had come-have-left02br
00E)has come-did-leave02br
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00I think the best answer is A . But I couldn't find out the reason why B wrong.02br
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00Thanks in advance..0-
  

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). It seems to mean that you waited for you mother to arrive and then you left at an earlier time... 0-

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0 As far as I can see B is an impossibility (unless you're a time traveller!). It seems to mean that you waited for you mother to arrive and then you left at an earlier time... 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Not until my mother ....... ........ I .........the home for the meeting at the Paul's.12br
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10A)came-did-leave12br
10B)came-had-left12br
10C)came-have-left12br
10D)had come-have-left12br
10E)has come-did-leave12br
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0Then can we say that : We can not use a negative past perfect tense as the tense of the main verb of an untıl clause.02br
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00As in below;02br
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01u00Until02u00 it stopped raining, we 01u00hadn't left02u00 the house. 02br
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00What you think of this one?0-
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01cite10Mr-Taciturn12cite10Then can we say that : We can not use a negative past perfect tense as the tense of the main verb of an untıl clause.12br
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10As in below;12br
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11u10Until12u10 it stopped raining, we 11u10hadn't left12u10 the house. 
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0Then , 02br
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00we 01u00can not use negative past perfect02u00 in the main part , can we?0-
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00We can not use a negative past perfect tense as the tense of the main verb of an untıl clause.12blockquote
10I understand this to mean: We cannot use a negative past perfect tense in the main clause when an 01i00until02i00 clause is present in the same sentence. This is false.02br
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