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Remyzero Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect

To turn the fluorescent protein off, and watch what happened in "chase" the researchers simply.... Tetracycline to the mouse food. And no more fluorescent protein was made in the skin.


Added / had added

Which one is correct and why.

  

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There seems no reason for the complication of the past perfect. Just use "added". You need a comma after "chase", but I don't understand "watch what happened in 'chase'", and, on the face of it, it doesn't look right.

  • There seems no reason for the complication of the past perfect.
  • Just use "added".
  • You need a comma after "chase", but I don't understand "watch what happened in 'chase'", and, on the face of it, it doesn't look right.
  • More information about what "chase" refers to is needed.
  • Starting a sentence with "And" doesn't seem appropriate for this kind of scientific writing.
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There seems no reason for the complication of the past perfect. Just use "added".

You need a comma after "chase", but I don't understand "watch what happened in 'chase'", and, on the face of it, it doesn't look right. More information about what "chase" refers to is needed.

Starting a sentence with "And" doesn't seem appropriate for this kind of scientific writing.

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