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Trần Khanh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past Perfect or Past Tense

Hi all,
Hi all, I encountered this sentence and don't understand why did they use past tense  instead of past tense: "I had been up all night trying to finish the presentation". Could you help me to understand it?
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n Khanh Hi all,Hi all, I encountered this sentence and don't understand why did they use past tense instead of past tense: "I had been up all night trying to finish the presentation". Thank you! The past perfect is used in a context of past actions, and earlier past actions Yesterday morning I was very tired.

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  • n Khanh Hi all,Hi all, I encountered this sentence and don't understand why did they use past tense instead of past tense: "I had been up all night trying to finish the presentation".
  • Thank you!
  • The past perfect is used in a context of past actions, and earlier past actions Yesterday morning I was very tired.
  • (a past action: yesterday morning) I had been up all night trying to finish the presentation.
  • ) Here is the simple past.
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Tr?n KhanhHi all,Hi all, I encountered this sentence and don't understand why did they use past tense instead of past tense: "I had been up all night trying to finish the presentation". Could you help me to understand it?Thank you!
The past perfect is used in a context of past actions, and earlier past actions

Yesterday morning I was very tired. (
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The past perfect refers to a time earlier than another past time. Perhaps the following morning somebody helped him finish it.
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Tr?n KhanhCould you help me to understand it?
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