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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Past perfect use
Dear native speakers, please tell me if I wanted to express that two actions happened before another action in the past what sentence would be correct 
for example - Before he became famous his sister had achieved fame and fell in love with his friend. Or " Before he bec?me famous his sister HAD achieved fame and HAD fallen in love with his friend. Some native speakers told me that could use only one past perfect and that past simple to denote that all the actions listed took place earlier. Thanks lot.
for example - Before he became famous his sister had achieved fame and fell in love with his friend. Or " Before he bec?me famous his sister HAD achieved fame and HAD fallen in love with his friend. Some native speakers told me that could use only one past perfect and that past simple to denote that all the actions listed took place earlier. Thanks lot. Top answer
A word like 'before' makes the sequence of events clear, so then we commonly just use Simple Present. eg Before he became famous his sister achieved fame and fell in love with his friend. Without 'before', we'd say eg He became famous in 2012.
- A word like 'before' makes the sequence of events clear, so then we commonly just use Simple Present.
- eg Before he became famous his sister achieved fame and fell in love with his friend.
- Without 'before', we'd say eg He became famous in 2012.
- His sister had achieved fame and had fallen in love with his friend.
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A word like 'before' makes the sequence of events clear, so then we commonly just use Simple Present.
eg Before he became famous his sister achieved fame and fell in love with his friend.
Without 'before', we'd say
eg He became famous in 2012. His sister had achieved fam
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