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Heralding Heretic Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Past tense
Greetings,
I have a question about the following sentence:
It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream.
Is it grammatically correct to use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous twice in one sentence? Or would it be better to write the sentence as followed:
It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period was a distorted daydream.
Thanks.
I have a question about the following sentence:
It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream.
Is it grammatically correct to use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous twice in one sentence? Or would it be better to write the sentence as followed:
It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period was a distorted daydream.
Thanks.
Top answer
Heralding Heretic It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream. Is it grammatically correct to use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous twice in one sentence? Yes.
- Heralding Heretic It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream.
- Is it grammatically correct to use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous twice in one sentence?
- Yes.
- Note that there is no past perfect continuous in your sentence It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream .
- Heralding Heretic Or would it be better to write the sentence as followed:It made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period was a distorted daydream.
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Heralding HereticIt made me realize that the vivaciousness I had experienced in the preceding period had been a distorted daydream. Is it grammatically correct to use the past perfect and the past perfect continuous twice in one sentence?Yes.
Note that there is no past perfect continuous in your sentence It made me realize that the vivaciousness I
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You are right. I misread my own sentence as had been distorted. 
Guess I was going through this part of my editing a bit too fast!
Guess I was going through this part of my editing a bit too fast!00
AnonymousI'd write like that, i.e. with "was" instead of "had been".I would, as well.
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