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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Past perfect question
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00 I am trying to figure out the following passage. 02 br
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00 "By the time I got home, my children had already done the dishes and (vacuum) the floor". 02 br
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00 I am wondering, should I put "...and vacuumed the floor", or "...and had vacuumed the floor". 02 br
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00 What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here? 02 br
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00 From someone coming to grips with his poor English.. 0-
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00 I am trying to figure out the following passage. 02 br
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00 "By the time I got home, my children had already done the dishes and (vacuum) the floor". 02 br
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00 I am wondering, should I put "...and vacuumed the floor", or "...and had vacuumed the floor". 02 br
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00 What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here? 02 br
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00 From someone coming to grips with his poor English.. 0-
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" 02 br 02 br 00 It is not incorrect to include a second auxiliary verb (had), but it sounds needlessly repetitive. It is rarely used except for emphasis. " 0-
- " 02 br 02 br 00 It is not incorrect to include a second auxiliary verb (had), but it sounds needlessly repetitive.
- It is rarely used except for emphasis.
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0 If would say, "By the time I got home, my children had already done the dishes and vacuumed the floor." 02 br
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00 It is not incorrect to include a second auxiliary verb (had), but it sounds needlessly repetitive. It is rarely used except for emphasis. For instance, if the speaker wanted to stress the fact that the children had both of the chores, they might say, "By the t
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00 It is not incorrect to include a second auxiliary verb (had), but it sounds needlessly repetitive. It is rarely used except for emphasis. For instance, if the speaker wanted to stress the fact that the children had both of the chores, they might say, "By the t
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0 Wonderful explanation. Thanks a thousand times. 02 br
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00 There is no simple past in the second clause. Even if you answer "vacuumed" (not "had vacuumed"), the form you are using ("vacuumed") is not the simple past, but the past participle, which forms a past perfect tense when combined
00 What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here? 12 blockquote12 br
00 There is no simple past in the second clause. Even if you answer "vacuumed" (not "had vacuumed"), the form you are using ("vacuumed") is not the simple past, but the past participle, which forms a past perfect tense when combined
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