Present perfect or past perfect?
Please check the sentence below.
"They told me that they hadn't eaten such kind of food before."
Someone said that we can use present perfect tense for the clause after "that". To my knowlege, in a reported speech, when the reporting verb in the past form, the tense after the reporting verb can't be "present" so we can't use present perfect in this sentence.
Is that correct?
Top answer
"such kind of food" doesn't seem natural to me (opinions may vary), so I'll change that for the examples: 1. They told me that they hadn't eaten this kind of food before. 2.
- "such kind of food" doesn't seem natural to me (opinions may vary), so I'll change that for the examples: 1.
- They told me that they hadn't eaten this kind of food before.
- 2.
- They told me that they haven't eaten this kind of food before.
- These are both possible.
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"such kind of food" doesn't seem natural to me (opinions may vary), so I'll change that for the examples:
1. They told me that they hadn't eaten this kind of food before.
2. They told me that they haven't eaten this kind of food before.
These are both possible. (2) is restricted to recent/current events. (1) can be used about events at any time in th
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