Present and past perfect
Why did you that for her?
Because she's bought me a lot of gifts.
Because she'd bought me a lot of gifts.
Can both be used? If so, is this the correct meaning?
1st one ~ She has bought me a lot of gifts in her life in general
2nd one ~ She had bought me a lot of gifts before I invited her
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Note: You should be posting these in the grammar forum, not in the pronunciation forum. Necrophagist Why did you do that for her? Because she's bought me a lot of gifts.
- Note: You should be posting these in the grammar forum, not in the pronunciation forum.
- Necrophagist Why did you do that for her?
- Because she's bought me a lot of gifts.
- Because she'd bought me a lot of gifts.
- As mentioned already in two other threads on this same topic, it depends on the distance in time from the moment you say this.
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NecrophagistWhy did you do that for her?
Because she's bought me a lot of gifts.
Because she'd bought me a lot of gifts.
As mentioned already in two other threads on this same topic, it depends on the distance in
0Necrophagistis this the correct meaning?
1st one ~ She has bought me a lot of gifts in her life in general
2nd one ~ She had bought me a lot of gifts before I invited her
From my previous post, you can see that I don't see this as the correct way to distinguish between the two sentences.
(By the way, it's only in the last two words of your pos
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