Past simple or perfect
I had to use a taxi because I had forgotten/ I forgot that I didn't have any money. Are both ok?
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Necrophagist I had to use a taxi because I had forgotten/ I forgot that I didn't have any money. Are both ok? Despite textbook explanation about past perfect, in actual everyday usage, past perfect is not used as much as taught.
- Necrophagist I had to use a taxi because I had forgotten/ I forgot that I didn't have any money.
- Are both ok?
- Despite textbook explanation about past perfect, in actual everyday usage, past perfect is not used as much as taught.
- In your sentence, the sequence of events were clear so there is no need to use past perfect.
- However, it is not wrong.
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NecrophagistI had to use a taxi because I had forgotten/ I forgot that I didn't have any money. Are both ok?
Despite textbook explanation about past perfect, in actual everyday usage, past perfect is not used as much as taught. In your sentence, the sequence of events were clear so there is no need to use past perfect. However, it is not wrong.
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