past perfect

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01i00I went fishing this morning. Before I went fishing, I went to a shop.I bought a few apples there.02i02br
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00No call for past perfect-- it is a simple past narrative in clear chronological order. 0-

0Hi,02br
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01font00I wonder how past perfect is used in longer narratives. Let me pull a case in point: 02font02br
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01font00"I went fishing this morning. Before I went fishing, I had gone to a shop..." And now, sh

0Clive, please allow me to interrupt for a second.02br
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00Let's examine the momentary shift in time using past perfect. If I would like to add another point that happened while I was at the store, do I need to use past perfect again? 02br
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00"I went fishing this morning. I had gone to a shop where I bought a few apples. Oh...I almost forgot, I [ha

0Hi,02br
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00No, I wouldn't do that. You have already performed the shift.02br
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00Clive0-

0Sorry, I promise this is my last post.02br
00Won't that be confusing to the reader since you use past tense to describe both events; in the past's past and in the past. Reader won't know02br
00whether you're still describing events that happened at the store or you've returned to the original time point (before the time shift occurred).02br
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Won't that be confusing to the reader since you use past tense to describe both events; in the past's past and in the past. Reader won't know02br
00whether you're still describing events that happened at the store or you've returned to the original time point (before the time shift occurred). 02font02br

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01cite10New2grammar12cite10Won't that be confusing to the reader since you use past tense to describe both events12blockquote

10 If everyone was really careful to always use the grammatically correct tense then using the "wrong" one might be pretty confusing, but that's not the case. English is pretty relaxed when it

0Huevos, could you give a couple of examples to support your statement. 02br
00They'll help me understand better. Thanks in advance!0-

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01cite10New2grammar12cite10Huevos, could you give a couple of examples to support your statement.12blockquote

10 Bob 01font00went02font00 home because his wife 01font00had fallen02font00 over in the shower and 01font

0English is pretty relaxed when it comes to past events and we often use the past indefinite where the past imperfect, past perfect, or present perfect might be grammatically preferable, but, because we are all used to hearing it we don't find it confusing02br
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00Are the first sentences what you said grammatically preferable?02br
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00If so, I think