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hello dear teacherwhy  do we use past perfect only for had picked up and not transcribed cause both actiont happened at the same time Is it only to say both action happened before  the stardate which is the reference dateCaptains log, stardate 10.3.12: The Lloyd Pack 7" ep is finally realized. We had picked up a distress signal some weeks back, the call letters unclear, but seemingly emitted from a slow & hostile planet known only as URP. The data transcribed mentioned project (Lloyd Pack), title, (Know Your Lloyd Pack), participants (Russell Walker, Letha Rodman Melchior, Dan Melchior) & facilitator (Siltbreeze).thanks to publish and to answer

Grammarfreak · Accepted Answer

Anon,
Please capitalize and punctuate correctly, at least try. After all this is an English forum.
Past perfect use is absolutely correct here because a captain's log is the record which detailed many events as they happened in the past that that we are reading at the present.

Anonymous · Answer

hello

terribly sorry for lack of ponctuation and capitalisation
So if I understand clearly your answer:
It means that captain log is already in the past . So both action
picked up and transcribed happened before the captain log was send .
But what I dont understand it is why we don't use PP for both action
picked up and transcribed cause they happen at the same time.

As usual thanks to answer

Grammarfreak · Answer

Anonymoushello, terribly sorry for [the] lack of ponctuation and capitalisation.

So if I understand clearly your answer:It means that [the] captain log is already in the past . So both action picked up and transcribed happened before the captain log was send . But what I don't understand it is why we don't use PP for both actions. picked up and transcribed cause they happen at the same time.As usual thanks to answer

Anon,
If you just want the forum to answer your questions without showing your effort to heed the advice for correction, you may or may not get future questions answered as we would like to see our effort well spent.

We had picked up a distress signal some weeks back, the call letters unclear, but seemingly emitted from a slow & hostile planet known only as URP. The data transcribed mentioned project (Lloyd Pack), title, (Know Your Lloyd Pack)

As I already explained, the picking up of the distressed signal (event 1) and the data transcribed (passive, event 2) were both incidents recorded in the log. I am still feeling foggy about your question. If your abbreviation (PP) meant present perfect, consider your question, it is Past Perfect. So which one is it?

Anonymous · Answer

So my question is why it is not written had transcribed as both actions picked up and transcribed happened before the log was sent .

thanks

Grammarfreak · Answer

Anonymouswhy it is not written had transcribed as both actions picked up and transcribed happened before the log was sent .

We had picked up a distress signal some weeks back , the call letters unclear, but seemingly emitted from a slow & hostile planet known only as URP. The data transcribed mentioned project (Lloyd Pack), title, (Know Your Lloyd Pack)

It is because they were not equal in construction.

[ transcribed - is a predicative adjective pertained to the noun "data"].
For explanation purpose, you may think of it as :
" .....the data, which had been transcribed, mentioned project ......

This is the same construction as: The robbery suspect reprehended ( by the police) has prior felony criminal records,

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