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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Past perfect and present perfect together
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
Is it possible to use the past perfect and the present perfect as follows:
The Company has announced that it had not yet received an offer.
Is it possible to use these two tenses like that? I mean to say that the company announced at some point in the past (recently, no exact date) that up to that date (not up to the time of writing the sentence) it did not receive an offer.
Or does it have to be either:
The company has announced that it has not yet...
The company announced that it had not yet...
Please let me know!
Thank you!
Lee
Is it possible to use the past perfect and the present perfect as follows:
The Company has announced that it had not yet received an offer.
Is it possible to use these two tenses like that? I mean to say that the company announced at some point in the past (recently, no exact date) that up to that date (not up to the time of writing the sentence) it did not receive an offer.
Or does it have to be either:
The company has announced that it has not yet...
The company announced that it had not yet...
Please let me know!
Thank you!
Lee
Top answer
The company announced that it had not yet... Only those two work.
- The company announced that it had not yet...
- Only those two work.
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AnonymousThe company has announced that it has not yet...The company announced that it had not yet...Only those two work.
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Thank you, fivejedjon (I am the OP).
I'd thought as much, but if you don't mind, can you tell me why? If I say that "the company has announced", isn't that already an established event in the past, which means that the other event is antecedent to it? Or is it because the present perfect connected to now that the past perfect isn't workable?
Thanks again.
I'd thought as much, but if you don't mind, can you tell me why? If I say that "the company has announced", isn't that already an established event in the past, which means that the other event is antecedent to it? Or is it because the present perfect connected to now that the past perfect isn't workable?
Thanks again.
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