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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect tense

"The company had promoted the product by claiming that the black currants in Ribena had four times the vitamin C of oranges."

The sentence above is from a text book and I think that had promoted is a past form of have promoted, but some says the reason there is had promoted in the sentence is that it happened before the result came out, but I still think it is related to perfect tense. What do you teachers think about it?

Thank you so much as usual and I really hope to hear from you.
  

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Anonymous some says the reason there is had promoted in the sentence is that it happened before the result came out That's how I see it, too. 'Promoted' (simple past) would probably work as well, but there is no call for 'advancing' it to present perfect, I think.

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  • Anonymous some says the reason there is had promoted in the sentence is that it happened before the result came out That's how I see it, too.
  • 'Promoted' (simple past) would probably work as well, but there is no call for 'advancing' it to present perfect, I think.
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Anonymous some says the reason there is had promoted in the sentence is that it happened before the result came out
That's how I see it, too. 'Promoted' (simple past) would probably work as well, but there is no call for 'advancing' it to present perfect, I think.
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Thank you and now I understood it. And actually, the original sentence is

"I was surprised that the company had promoted the product by claiming that the black currants in Ribena had four times the vitamin C of oranges."

And now I know why had promoted was written in the sentence, but I am wondering if

"I was surprised th
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AnonymousWhat do you think and feel about it?
The second sentence is also possible, but much clunkier.
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