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Puja Wahi Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Past tense or past perfect tense
Once I had gone to Zoo with my friends.
Or
I once went to zoo with my friends.
Which of the above two sentences are correct.
Also I have read in many books that past perfect tense is not used alone. It is used with past tense, to specify an event which happened in the past of past tense.
But when I started reading I came across many sentences where past perfect tense is used without past tense.
So please tell me where I can use past tense and where past perfect tense.
Thanks in advance.
Or
I once went to zoo with my friends.
Which of the above two sentences are correct.
Also I have read in many books that past perfect tense is not used alone. It is used with past tense, to specify an event which happened in the past of past tense.
But when I started reading I came across many sentences where past perfect tense is used without past tense.
So please tell me where I can use past tense and where past perfect tense.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
It should be "to a/the zoo". "I once went to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past. Additional context is needed to justify the use of the past perfect.
- It should be "to a/the zoo".
- "I once went to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past.
- Additional context is needed to justify the use of the past perfect.
- "I once had gone to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past, before some other past event or past reference point that is mentioned in the context, or before the point in time that the narrative has reached in the case of a past tense narrative.
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It should be "to a/the zoo".
"I once went to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past.
Additional context is needed to justify the use of the past perfect. "I once had gone to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past, before some other past event or past reference point that is mentioned in the context, or before th
"I once went to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past.
Additional context is needed to justify the use of the past perfect. "I once had gone to the zoo with my friends" describes an event that happened in the past, before some other past event or past reference point that is mentioned in the context, or before th
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Thank you.It means that past perfect tense can not be used without giving reference to the past tense. Thanks in advance.
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Puja WahiIt means that past perfect tense can not be used without giving reference to the past tense.Roughly, yes. The thing described in the past perfect should be further back in time relative to some other past event or past point of reference. This past event or point of reference must be known from the context. Often it may be described using a past-tens
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