past perfect or past simple

I'd say: "When she hung up the phone, she realized she had forgotten to take down the caller's name and number".

Anonymouswhen she___(hang up) the phone she _____(realise) she______(forget) to take down the caller's name and number:

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PAST SIMPLE + PAST SIMPLE + PAST PERFECT

Hi,

Yes. However, you'll hear a lot of people just use simple past 3 times here. The same meaning as SP + SP + PP will normally be understood. The phrase 'take down' suggests that the forgetting occurred at the time the caller spoke the information, ie during and not after the call. If the forgetting occurred after hanging up, a more natural phrase would be 'write down'.

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RuslanaI'd say: "When she hung up the phone, she realized she had forgotten to take down the caller's name and number".

Realise is a correct, British spelling of the verb.

Cheers
CB

Weird because my Oxford dictionary doesn't have the word "realise" but "realize".

RuslanaWeird because my Oxford dictionary doesn't have the word "realise" but "realize".

That's not my fault. You have a computer at your disposal, use a search engine and find an online dictionary or read a British newspaper.

Cheers
CB

Hm, indeed, here are the results of online [url=]Cambridge[/url] and [url=http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&field-12668446=realise&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact&sortorder=score%2Cname]Oxford[/url] dictionaries.

A related point to this discussion: Most of the "-ize" form of verbs/words used in AmE are used in "-ise" form in BrE. For example, "organize","finalize", "realize" and "scrutinize" are AmE, and "organise", "finalise" ,"realise" and "scrutinise" are their BrE counterparts.

Perhaps confusingly, a number of British publishers (e.g. the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, Penguin Books) still favour "-ize" endings.

"-ize" predominated in BrE until the Second World War; but in most magazines and newspapers now, you find "-ise". It's also now standard in BrE business usage, except where people have forgotten to change their pc settings from AmE to BrE.