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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Please check these sentences.

I had been ready to go to the party but somebody showed up to our house and said the party had been canceled. Correct?
  

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Given the sequence of events, I think the first verb should be simple past (was ready). The others are good. [ Probably 'showed up at our house' in most English-speaking areas.

— Philip

  • Given the sequence of events, I think the first verb should be simple past (was ready).
  • The others are good.
  • [ Probably 'showed up at our house' in most English-speaking areas.
  • ]
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Given the sequence of events, I think the first verb should be simple past (was ready). The others are good. [ Probably 'showed up at our house' in most English-speaking areas. ]
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I have been trying to learn how to use past perfect tense. What the reason that we can't use past perfect there? Past perfect can be used to show something happened before something happened in the past. Here, Getting ready happened before somebody showed up at the house. Right?
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AnonymousI have been trying to learn how to use past perfect tense. What the reason that we can't use past perfect there? Past perfect can be used to show something happened before something happened in the past. Here, Getting ready happened before somebody showed up at the house. Right?
Right, but that would prob
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So you mean we can say,'I had been ready for 20 minute but somebody showed up at our house and said the party had been canceled', correct right?
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AnonymousSo you mean we can say,'I had been ready for 20 minute but somebody showed up at our house and said the party had been canceled', correct right?
Yes.
(minutes)
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Are you trying to say that we can't use non action verbs such as be,know etc in the past perfect sentence with that meaning(one thing happenen after another) and the sentenees has to be with time period if we use them, right?
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Anonymoushave been trying to learn how to use past perfect tense. What the reason that we can't use past perfect there? Past perfect can be used to show something happened before something happened in the past.
'Can be used'? No. Past perfect is used to show a past event completed before another past event IF the order of events is otherwise uncertain or if
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You mean the readiness came first but there is no need to emphasize the readineas, right?
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AnonymousYou mean the readiness came first but there is no need to emphasize the readineas, right?
Right; the reader is trusted to understand the normal course of events in the real world.
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Can I also say,'After I had been ready for an hour, somebody showed up and said the party had been canceled'. Correct?
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