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Papi Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

parallel structure

"Tufts of snow melted yards beneath their feet into a mighty stream of water that had, millennia ago, driven a path through the mountain as it poured loudly into the frothing pool below.”
In the above sentence is it not necessary to put a had before poured?
  

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I don't think it's necessary. Had driven places the action at the proper time in the past.

— Philip

  • I don't think it's necessary.
  • Had driven places the action at the proper time in the past.
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I don't think it's necessary. Had driven places the action at the proper time in the past.
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Thank you very much.
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