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Olive file 673 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect progressive

How would you interpret the following:

It was so difficult to get up last Monday for school. I had been working on my essays the night before and I was very tired.

To me it seems she was still tired on Monday, because she had been working on the essays the night before (cause and effect). But someone suggested that I am wrong and that she was tired that same night. What do you think?

Is it okay to use past perfect progressive with a definition of time?

  

Top answer

To me it seems she was still tired on Monday To me, too. Only that interpretation explains why it was so difficult to get up last Monday. Is it okay to use past perfect progressive with a definition of time?

— Clive

  • To me it seems she was still tired on Monday To me, too.
  • Only that interpretation explains why it was so difficult to get up last Monday.
  • Is it okay to use past perfect progressive with a definition of time?
  • Yes
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To me it seems she was still tired on Monday To me, too. Only that interpretation explains why it was so difficult to get up last Monday.

Is it okay to use past perfect progressive with a definition of time? Yes

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olive file 673Is it okay to use past perfect progressive with a definition of time?

"with a mention of time" says it better.

Yes, it's OK. It's the present perfect that has the restriction about mentioning a specific time in the same sentence.

CJ

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