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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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I'm going to put this color where the other blue color has stopped/had stopped/stopped.

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Hi, I'm going to put this color where the other blue color has stopped/had stopped/stopped. Sounds awkward. Perhaps I'm going to put this color next to / beside the blue.

— Clive

  • Hi, I'm going to put this color where the other blue color has stopped/had stopped/stopped.
  • Sounds awkward.
  • Perhaps I'm going to put this color next to / beside the blue.
  • We usually just say eg blue , not blue colour .
  • Clive
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Hi,

I'm going to put this color where the other blue color has stopped/had stopped/stopped.

Sounds awkward.



Perhaps

I'm going to put this color next to / beside the blue.



We usually just say eg blue, not blue colour.



Clive
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Clive Hi,
I'm going to put this color where the other blue color has stopped/had stopped/stopped.

Sounds awkward.

Perhaps
I'm going to put this color next to / beside the blue.

We usually just say eg blue, not blue colour.

Clive
I'm going to put this color where the blue has stopped/had stopped/stopped.

Can
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Hi,

I'm going to put this color where the blue has stopped/had stopped/stopped.

Can you say has stopped/had stopped?

Past Perfect and Present Perfect are standard English tenses. Use them in a context where you think you need them. In your sentence, Present Perfect sounds OK.



But as I tried to show in my original reply, it's not very natural to talk
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