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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Regarding sentences with past perfect tenses
Hi. Please help me with these.
1. What is difference?
What did he do when he had found out she had come/came into the room.
2. Is this correct to have a past perfect tense in a subordinate clause and another one in the main clause?
Before he had gotten some help in his affairs, he had tried to do everything by himself.
3. For the sentence below, I think the past perfect continous denotes ongoing nature of his experiencing for the previous two years prior to some time (I have no idea what time it suppose to be. Should I know it?) in the past (whereas the past perfect doesn't denote ongoing nature).
He was forgetting things that he had been learning/had learned for the past two years.
1. What is difference?
What did he do when he had found out she had come/came into the room.
2. Is this correct to have a past perfect tense in a subordinate clause and another one in the main clause?
Before he had gotten some help in his affairs, he had tried to do everything by himself.
3. For the sentence below, I think the past perfect continous denotes ongoing nature of his experiencing for the previous two years prior to some time (I have no idea what time it suppose to be. Should I know it?) in the past (whereas the past perfect doesn't denote ongoing nature).
He was forgetting things that he had been learning/had learned for the past two years.
Top answer
1. -- Only this is correct. 2.
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- -- Only this is correct.
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- -- Not unless there is yet a third, more recent past event in the context.
- 3.
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1. What did he do when he had found out she had come into the room.-- Only this is correct.
2. Is this correct to have a past perfect tense in a subordinate clause and another one in the main clause?-- Not unless there is yet a third, more recent past event in the context.
3. For the sentence below, I think the past perfect continous denotes ongoing nature o
2. Is this correct to have a past perfect tense in a subordinate clause and another one in the main clause?-- Not unless there is yet a third, more recent past event in the context.
3. For the sentence below, I think the past perfect continous denotes ongoing nature o
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