Past simple or perfect
You're talking to someone and you realize he has broken a promise.
You say: "I thought we'd made a deal"
What if I decide to add a time clause to that? "I thought we made/had made a deal when we were having dinner last night."
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" are okay. " is ungrammatical - the problem with this one is that you're talking about a definitely described past event at which something occurred, which forces everything that happened at that event into the past tense.
- " are okay.
- " is ungrammatical - the problem with this one is that you're talking about a definitely described past event at which something occurred, which forces everything that happened at that event into the past tense.
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"I thought we'd made a deal." and "I thought we made a deal when we were having dinner last night." are okay. But "I thought we had made a deal when we were having dinner last night." is ungrammatical - the problem with this one is that you're talking about a definitely described past event at which something occurred, which forces everything that happened at that event into the past tense.
0I think you want to mix simple past tools with past perfect which is not acceptable grammatically as I know. What I mean by 'tools' is to use the word 'last' like to say: last night, last year, last week ..etc. Which specifies a CERTAIN time. This word usually comes and used with simple past. You are not supposed to use it with past perfect. Other words that are used with simple past tense are
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