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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
past perfect after past simple
Hello teacher
I wanted to order something on the internet. I had asked for a new password when i realised that i had lost it. But i haven't yet received the new password.
If I write that does that mean that first I lost my password then realised it and asked for a new one.
What is hard to understand is that" realised" past simple comes first , i think "had asked " should come before as it is past perfect.
Thanks for answering
I wanted to order something on the internet. I had asked for a new password when i realised that i had lost it. But i haven't yet received the new password.
If I write that does that mean that first I lost my password then realised it and asked for a new one.
What is hard to understand is that" realised" past simple comes first , i think "had asked " should come before as it is past perfect.
Thanks for answering
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I had asked for a new password when I realised that I had forgotten it. But I haven't yet received the new password. The sequence of actions is 1) forgetting the password 2) realizing the forgetting and because of this, asking for a new one (these are close in time) 3) not receiving the new password
- I had asked for a new password when I realised that I had forgotten it.
- But I haven't yet received the new password.
- The sequence of actions is 1) forgetting the password 2) realizing the forgetting and because of this, asking for a new one (these are close in time) 3) not receiving the new password
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I had asked for a new password when I realised that I had forgotten it. But I haven't yet received the new password.
The sequence of actions is
1) forgetting the password
2) realizing the forgetting and
The sequence of actions is
1) forgetting the password
2) realizing the forgetting and
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Hi,
Use past simple instead of past perfect for "asking for a new password", then your sentence reads fine.
I asked for a new password when I realized that I had forgot it.
Hamid
Use past simple instead of past perfect for "asking for a new password", then your sentence reads fine.
I asked for a new password when I realized that I had forgot it.
Hamid
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That is what I thought
imagine the same scenario but told in present
I want to order something on the internet. But I realise that I ve lost my password and ask for a new one but......
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I want to order something on the internet.But I realise that I ve lost my password and I've asked for a new one but..
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I want to order something on the internet. But I realised
imagine the same scenario but told in present
I want to order something on the internet. But I realise that I ve lost my password and ask for a new one but......
OR
I want to order something on the internet.But I realise that I ve lost my password and I've asked for a new one but..
OR
I want to order something on the internet. But I realised
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AlpheccaStarsI had asked for a new password when I realised that I had forgotten it.a new password (an antecedent of the pronoun it), which is non-existent when having been asked for, couldn't have been forgotten, so how come that one had forgotten something what didn't exist at the moment of having forgotten it.
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hrsaneiI asked for a new password when I realized that I had forgot it.... I had forgotten it.
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Both forgot and forgotten are correct in American English as past participle of "forget". However, the use of "forgot" as a past participle in BrE is archaic and poetic.
Hamid
Hamid
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hrsaneiBoth forgot and forgotten are correct in American English as past participle of "forget".Sorry; I hadn't realised that.
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fivejedjonSorry; I hadn't realised that.Have you never sung this?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
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Yes, but that was written (A) in 1788 (b) by a Scot and (c) as part of a poem. That poem does not mean that I now think of myself as approaching auld age. 'Forgot' is not the past participle of FORGET in modern BrE.
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fivejedjon'Forgot' is not the past participle of FORGET in modern BrE.Good to know. I was taught in no uncertain terms that "gotten" and "forgotten" were American and "got" and "forgot" were the corresponding British past participles. End of story.
Go figure.
CJ
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