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PreciousJones Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Past Perfect
Email Removed">Can you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situations, because I don't see how either describes an event that accord before another event. Thank you!
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Email Removed">First Situation:
Email Removed">Me: um..btw is the first meeting free of charge?
Email Removed">Tutor: I want to find out your specific needs, your areas of challenge, set a timeline, etc.
hmmm... I hadn't considered free of charge, but you know what, sure!
Second situation:
Please tell me if B is answered in the right grammatical form. Please tell me if the past perfect tense was used correctly here. Thank you.
A: That's not a problem, but I kind of find it redundant to take notes, because he posts them on the ecompanion website and most of the lectures he's given up until this point have been straight off of the power-point slides. On the other hand, since I'm probably gonna take notes anyway, cause there's nothing else better to do....haha.. you can definitely have a copy of mine. Would you like to find time to study and discuss philosophy in the future, maybe before our first midterm? Get back to me.
B:
Wow, I hadn't really looked at ecompanion yet. Thanks pointing me there.
I think meeting up to study before the midterm is a great idea . Let's do it!
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Email Removed">First Situation:
Email Removed">Me: um..btw is the first meeting free of charge?
Email Removed">Tutor: I want to find out your specific needs, your areas of challenge, set a timeline, etc.
hmmm... I hadn't considered free of charge, but you know what, sure!
Second situation:
Please tell me if B is answered in the right grammatical form. Please tell me if the past perfect tense was used correctly here. Thank you.
A: That's not a problem, but I kind of find it redundant to take notes, because he posts them on the ecompanion website and most of the lectures he's given up until this point have been straight off of the power-point slides. On the other hand, since I'm probably gonna take notes anyway, cause there's nothing else better to do....haha.. you can definitely have a copy of mine. Would you like to find time to study and discuss philosophy in the future, maybe before our first midterm? Get back to me.
B:
Wow, I hadn't really looked at ecompanion yet. Thanks pointing me there.
I think meeting up to study before the midterm is a great idea . Let's do it!
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Hi, Can you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situations, because I don't see how either describes an event that accord before another event. Thank you! btw is the first meeting free of charge?
- Hi, Can you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situations, because I don't see how either describes an event that accord before another event.
- Thank you!
- btw is the first meeting free of charge?
- Tutor: I want to find out your specific needs, your areas of challenge, set a timeline, etc.
- hmmm...
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Hi,
Can you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situations, because I don't see how either describes an event that accord before another event. Thank you!
First Situation:
Me: um..btw is the first meeting free of charge?
Tutor: I want to find out your specific needs, your areas of c
Can you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situations, because I don't see how either describes an event that accord before another event. Thank you!
First Situation:
Me: um..btw is the first meeting free of charge?
Tutor: I want to find out your specific needs, your areas of c
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1st situation: I hadn't considered that before I opened this conversation. .
2nd situation: Same deal.
2nd situation: Same deal.
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PreciousJonesCan you please tell me if the past perfect is used correctly in these two situationsThey are fine.
If you want, you can call this "the past perfect of sudden realization".
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