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Veronica 222 Posted 14 years ago
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Past Perfect

"Many times since the Earth was young, the place HAD lain under the sea." Why is Past Perfect here?
  

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He was building up to this line later on: "And so it was that a new landscape came into being, above the place where the ancient ridge lay buried."

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