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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Proper Tense

My co worker found the glasses that I had previously lost. I said to him" I have been looking for them for almost an hour." Did I say it correctly or should I have said "I had been looking ?
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When you talk to the person, use I have been looking....

— Philip

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When you talk to the person, use I have been looking....
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PhilipWhen you talk to the person, use I have been looking....
Do you mean that I have to write it if I ever want to say "I had been talking"?
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CalifJim PhilipWhen you talk to the person, use I have been looking....Do you mean that I have to write it if I ever want to say "I had been talking"? (Sorry. Just in one of those moods today.)CJ
Not at all. This is a case of where what I wrote on a second line got deleted somehow. It should have included: W
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