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MaXmOuSe Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Past perfect or just simple
Where your parents (live) when they (be) young?
Can we say Where had your parents lived when they were young ?
or we must keep - live and only change be - were
Can we say Where had your parents lived when they were young ?
or we must keep - live and only change be - were
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". I think we should conjugate all the verbs in the (simple) past.
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- I think we should conjugate all the verbs in the (simple) past.
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Hi Max,
I'll go like:
"Where did your parents live when they were young?".
I think we should conjugate all the verbs in the (simple) past.
I'll go like:
"Where did your parents live when they were young?".
I think we should conjugate all the verbs in the (simple) past.
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You are welcome Max. "I'm glad if I can help but mind it, I'm not a native speaker" (Signed someone: Pieanne)
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I am glad too 0
If you state "when my parents were young", it means they are older now, so it refer to the past. That's why, as Adomi says, you have to use the simple past.
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