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Adieng Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect tense in compound and complex sentences

My smartphone starts behaving weirdly. On a Friday, I send an email describing the problem to the customer care of the manufacturer of my smartphone. The employee of the manufacturer who reads my email explains my problem to a customer support officer and asks him to call me to tell me how to fix the problem. But for some reason the customer support officer doesn't understand the problem correctly. He calls me, quickly gives me a wrong advice and hangs up. After that, I apply his advice and learns that it doesn't work. I email the customer care again on the following Monday. The same customer support officer calls me up again, but this time he abuses me instead of giving advice and quickly hangs up. Now I have to email the customer care for the third time. So, I write again, and this is where I have some problems with past perfect tenses in compound/complex sentences.

Which one of the following is correct:

1. Dear customer care, after I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who called after I had emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again.

2. Dear customer care, after I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who had called after I emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again.

3. Dear customer care, after I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who had called after I had emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again.

  

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Which one of the following is correct: 1. Dear C ustomer C are, After I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who called after I had emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again. 2.

  • Which one of the following is correct: 1.
  • Dear C ustomer C are, After I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who called after I had emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again.
  • 2.
  • Dear C ustomer Care, After I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who had called after I emailed you for the first time on last Friday no comma called again.
  • 3.
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Which one of the following is correct:

1. Dear Customer Care,

After I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who called after I had emailed you for the first time on last Friday, called again.

2. Dear Customer Care,

After I emailed you again on Monday, the customer support officer who had

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