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Cup cake Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect or simple past

Hi Everyone,


I was just reading the news online and wondered about the following sentence:

"Earlier, Mr Rossello had said the efforts were moving forward."

Is it really necessary to use the past perfect with the time expression 'earlier'? We only need the simple past here, right?


Thanks,

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We can't answer that without knowing what else Mr R said earlier.

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  • We can't answer that without knowing what else Mr R said earlier.
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We can't answer that without knowing what else Mr R said earlier.

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