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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Past or Past perfect?

Hi all

The students ______ their classes about eight o'clock.

A. started
B. have started
C. had started
D. startes

The correctp option is A. But I don't understand why we can't use past perfect here.

Thank you
  

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Anonymous But I don't understand why we can't use past perfect here. We can, and do. But it needs a context with another past time reference.

  • Anonymous But I don't understand why we can't use past perfect here.
  • We can, and do.
  • But it needs a context with another past time reference.
  • The education board representative came into the school at 10 am to do her monthly observations.
  • The students had started ...
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Anonymous But I don't understand why we can't use past perfect here.
We can, and do.
But it needs a context with another past time reference.

The education board representative came into the school at 10 am to do her monthly observations. The students had started ...

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