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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
past perfect
I am sorry to ask this question again, but i did not understand the answer given so I try another time
Happy Refugees played several shows with the same line up, finally playing the last time in may1983.
PJ and I returned to the Stoke on Trent area in the summer of 1983. We got together a new five piece line up of Happy Refugees with a complete new set of songs. PJand I finally played together as a duo
under the name of Happy Refugees late in 1986.
Every band has a shelf life. Happy refugees had finally expired. We always felt excluded in many ways: we always played as it was our last show, we always felt like we were waiting for our aaudience.
Here is my question , why past perfect for"had finally expired". Is it because the author warn us that all the reader is going to read in this paragraph, takes place before the split. The author does the backshift
only for the first verb of the paragraph but we must undestand that all the paragrap is before the split even if the other verbs are past simple. This paragraph is a flash back
AM I RIGHT PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THANKS FOR TAKING OF YOUR TIME TO READ AND ANSWER
Happy Refugees played several shows with the same line up, finally playing the last time in may1983.
PJ and I returned to the Stoke on Trent area in the summer of 1983. We got together a new five piece line up of Happy Refugees with a complete new set of songs. PJand I finally played together as a duo
under the name of Happy Refugees late in 1986.
Every band has a shelf life. Happy refugees had finally expired. We always felt excluded in many ways: we always played as it was our last show, we always felt like we were waiting for our aaudience.
Here is my question , why past perfect for"had finally expired". Is it because the author warn us that all the reader is going to read in this paragraph, takes place before the split. The author does the backshift
only for the first verb of the paragraph but we must undestand that all the paragrap is before the split even if the other verbs are past simple. This paragraph is a flash back
AM I RIGHT PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THANKS FOR TAKING OF YOUR TIME TO READ AND ANSWER
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Anonymous Here is my question , why past perfect for"had finally expired". Is it because the author warn us that all the reader is going to read in this paragraph, takes place before the split. The author does the backshift only for the first verb of the paragraph but we must undestand that all the paragrap is before the split even if the other verbs are past simple.
- Anonymous Here is my question , why past perfect for"had finally expired".
- Is it because the author warn us that all the reader is going to read in this paragraph, takes place before the split.
- The author does the backshift only for the first verb of the paragraph but we must undestand that all the paragrap is before the split even if the other verbs are past simple.
- This paragraph is a flash backAM I RIGHT PLEASE LET ME KNOW Yes.
- That's right.
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AnonymousHere is my question , why past perfect for"had finally expired". Is it because the author warn us that all the reader is going to read in this paragraph, takes place before the split. The author does the backshift only for the first verb of the paragraph but we must undestand that all the paragrap is before the split even if the other verbs are past simple. This
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