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張 TAKO Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect

Hi everybody,
I would like to ask a question...
"A man had dived into the river after a ball."
Could you tell me why do we use past perfect in the sentence not use simple past?
thank you
  

Top answer

" We assume there is some prior context describing another "past" event which followed the diving, and the author wishes to emphasize that fact. , The police were questioning witnesses on the river bank. Welcome to English Forums, TAKO.

— Avangi

  • " We assume there is some prior context describing another "past" event which followed the diving, and the author wishes to emphasize that fact.
  • , The police were questioning witnesses on the river bank.
  • Welcome to English Forums, TAKO.
  • Thanks for joining us!
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? TAKO"A man had dived into the river after a ball."
We assume there is some prior context describing another "past" event which followed the diving, and the author wishes to emphasize that fact.
Eg., The police were questioning witnesses on the river bank.

Welcome to English Forums, TAKO. Thanks for joining us!

Best regards, -
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Hi Avangi,
thank you very much. I can understand this sentence.
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