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Ramesh Reddy Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Past tense and past perfect tense

I wish to know the usage of the past tense and past perfect tense, any one can help me by giving suitable examples.
  

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Hi, For your question, if you refer to a single event that happened in the past, for instant, last week, you may want to use simple past tense. I saw John and Mary last week. They look good!.

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  • Hi, For your question, if you refer to a single event that happened in the past, for instant, last week, you may want to use simple past tense.
  • I saw John and Mary last week.
  • They look good!.
  • If you have two or more past events taken place with one preceeding the other, you may want to use past perfect to emphasize the event with longer duration.
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Hi,
For your question, if you refer to a single event that happened in the past, for instant, last week, you may want to use simple past tense.

I saw John and Mary last week. They look good!.

If you have two or more past events taken place with one preceeding the other, you may want to use past perfect to emphasize the event with longer duration. i.e. Before I graduated fr
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Hi,
For your question, if you refer to a single event that happened in the past, for instant, last week, you may want to use simple past tense.

I saw John and Mary last week. They look good!.

If you have two or more past events taken place with one preceeding the other, you may want to use past perfect to emphasize the event with longer duration. i.e. Before I graduated fr
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thank you very much good man. thanks alot.
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