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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

past perfect/past simple/present perfect

0Which would be the most common response to the suggestion here?02br
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00- Why don't you send her some flowers?02br
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00(a)-- That's a good idea. I 01font00hadn't thought02font00 about doing that.02br
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00(b)-- That's a good idea. I 01font00didn't think02font00 about that. 02br
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00(c) -- That's a good idea. I haven't thought about doing that.0-
  

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0 I'd use c, but I think that in AmE01b 00 b02b 00 is the most prevalent. 0-

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  • 0 I'd use c, but I think that in AmE01b 00 b02b 00 is the most prevalent.
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0 I'd use c, but I think that in AmE01b00 b02b00 is the most prevalent. 0-
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0 I'd use (a), but I have no idea which is the most common.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10I'd use (a), but I have no idea which is the most common.12blockquote
10Whoa, interesting. 05000 I thought you would choose B. I choose B. And I thought A didn't sound good at all. Because I learned that the past perfect is used when you want to talk about something that happened before
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10Which would be the most common response to the suggestion here?12br
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10- Why don't you send her some flowers?12br
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10(a)-- That's a good idea. I 10hadn't thought10 about doing that.12br
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10(b)-- That's a good idea. I 10didn't th
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01cite10Chalatel12cite10I agree with 10Kooyeen that A is grammatically wrong12br
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10Well, I didn't say it is grammatically wrong. It's just that I thought a native speaker wouldn't choose A as a natural version. But if that is possible, then I'll have to relearn how to use the past perfect. 0
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0Hi guys,02br
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00A and B both sound fine to me.02br
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00Clive0-
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0 Consider:01i00 I hadn't thought of it before you mentioned it.02i02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Consider:11i10 I hadn't thought of it before you mentioned it.12i12br
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10Hmmmm... Hmmmm... That makes sense...02br
00So, if someone says : 02br
01b00- "Watch out! There's a car coming!"02br
00Screeeeech!02br
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0 Sure. I'd say both are OK.02br
00But I liked the Screeeeeech! part better. 05002br
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0I think all three have their small uses, but you need to place perhaps more temporal context in order to facilitate the proper application of the verb tense: 02br
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01i00(a)-- That's a good idea. 01b00You know, by/until yesterday02b00 I 01font00hadn't thought02font00 about doing that.02br
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