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Past perfect

But what had really happened to him after that stroke?

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Why is the past perfect used in this sentence? Please tell me, thanks.

  

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I went through it. I did find it a little hard to agree with past perfect. Even now I have my doubts about it.

  • I went through it.
  • I did find it a little hard to agree with past perfect.
  • Even now I have my doubts about it.
  • However, I was trying to look at it this way.
  • The speaker, in the present.
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I went through it. I did find it a little hard to agree with past perfect. Even now I have my doubts about it.

However, I was trying to look at it this way. The speaker, in the present. is referring to the time before he came back to consciousness.

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