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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect

I have a question regarding the following sentence

__ you___ Alex when you went there? (see)

I want to know what should be used here, past perfect or simple past and why.

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First, what do you think, please?
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(Had seen) would be the correct answer. According to the past perfect rule that two verbs exist, one should be in the past simple and the other in the past perfect.
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AnonymousAccording to the past perfect rule that two verbs exist, one should be in the past simple and the other in the past perfect.
That's not the rule. Use the past perfect only if the time reference is prior to another time reference in the sentence or in the conversation. In your sentence both things happened at the same time, so you need the sim
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Thank you for the information. I got it now!
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