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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Optional past perfect uses
0 Hi, 02 br
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00 Can you tell me if the past perfect uses for the following are optional? 02 br
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00 1. I thought about what you said today and I am going to tell you differently than I had told (told -- OK??) you at our last meeting. 02 br
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00 2. I took the stuff you mailed home yesterday and found it 01 u 00 had been damaged 02 u 00 en route to here. 02 br
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00 3. I was thinking about our conversation at our meeting yesterday and thought the comment you had made (made -- OK too??) at the meeting before yesterday's was more palatable to my personal feelings than the one you made yesterday. 02 br
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00 I think what I am asking for is examples where uses of the past perfect are optional due to the existence of certain contexts or words or phrases. What possibly could they be? 0-
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00 Can you tell me if the past perfect uses for the following are optional? 02 br
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00 1. I thought about what you said today and I am going to tell you differently than I had told (told -- OK??) you at our last meeting. 02 br
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00 2. I took the stuff you mailed home yesterday and found it 01 u 00 had been damaged 02 u 00 en route to here. 02 br
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00 3. I was thinking about our conversation at our meeting yesterday and thought the comment you had made (made -- OK too??) at the meeting before yesterday's was more palatable to my personal feelings than the one you made yesterday. 02 br
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00 I think what I am asking for is examples where uses of the past perfect are optional due to the existence of certain contexts or words or phrases. What possibly could they be? 0-
Top answer
0 No temporal indicators such as 01 b 00 before, since, after 02 b 00 , etc, thus you need the 01 b 00 past perfect 02 b 00 to clarify time sequences. 0-
- 0 No temporal indicators such as 01 b 00 before, since, after 02 b 00 , etc, thus you need the 01 b 00 past perfect 02 b 00 to clarify time sequences.
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0 No temporal indicators such as 01 b 00 before, since, after 02 b 00 , etc, thus you need the 01 b 00 past perfect 02 b 00 to clarify time sequences. 0-
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0 Thank you. 02 br
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00 Could any of these phrases could be marks of an temporal indication? 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed at our last meeting 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed on the day before yesterday 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed on July 2nd 0-
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00 Could any of these phrases could be marks of an temporal indication? 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed at our last meeting 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed on the day before yesterday 02 br
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00 ... what we had discussed on July 2nd 0-
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0 1. I thought about what you said today and I am going to tell you differently than I had told (told -- OK?? 01 font 00 OK. 02 font 00 ) you at our last meeting. 02 br
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00 2. I took the stuff you mailed home yesterday and found it 01 u 00 had been damaged 02 u 00 en route to here. 01 font 00
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00 2. I took the stuff you mailed home yesterday and found it 01 u 00 had been damaged 02 u 00 en route to here. 01 font 00
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