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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

present or past perfect simple

Text in the past... blabla.. Then I fell down
This has or had never happened to me before?
  

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Anonymous Then I fell downThis has or had never happened to me before? There is no clue to that solution. Anonymous Text in the past...

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Then I fell downThis has or had never happened to me before?
  • There is no clue to that solution.
  • Anonymous Text in the past...
  • blabla.
  • That is irrelevant.
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Anonymous Then I fell downThis has or had never happened to me before?
There is no clue to that solution.
AnonymousText in the past... blabla.
That is irrelevant.
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If you are describing something in the past and then you say
"This has OR had never happened to me before." What is it?
IMO had never happened sounds more logic because if you say it has never happened to you then that's contradictory as it has actually happened.
I'm slightly confused. Help.
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Stefan Jokic"This has OR had never happened to me before." What is it?
Both are correct in the right context.

Mr. Smithers was surprised yesterday when he won the lottery. That had never happened to him before, so, in his mood of joy and happiness, he reconciled with his mother and brothers.

Here the situation is set in the past, and w
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Exactly what I thought. Thanks.
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