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Marios8 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Not until

Hello,

a. Not until I got home did I realise my wallet was missing.

b. Not until I had got home did I realise my wallet was missing.


Is sentence "a" right? Isn't it necessary to use Past perfect, since ......had got home, happened first?


Thank you.

  

Top answer

What are you going to mean in sentence? it will help me to answer you. "you just realized that your wallet was missing only after you went home" are you trying to give this meaning?

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  • What are you going to mean in sentence?
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  • "you just realized that your wallet was missing only after you went home" are you trying to give this meaning?
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What are you going to mean in sentence? it will help me to answer you.

1."you just realized that your wallet was missing only after you went home" are you trying to give this meaning?

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I think you can say the following:-

Not till I got home did I realise my wallet was missing

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Those are both acceptable.

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