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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
She told me (present perfect and past perfect)
Hello teachers:
Would you kindly tell me what the difference in the meanings of the following sentences is?
= She told me that she has moved on.
= She told me that she had moved on.
I think after the main clause being in the past simple, "has moved on" is incorrect, but I am not absolutely sure if what I think is correct. Please help me by clarifying that.
Thank you.
Would you kindly tell me what the difference in the meanings of the following sentences is?
= She told me that she has moved on.
= She told me that she had moved on.
I think after the main clause being in the past simple, "has moved on" is incorrect, but I am not absolutely sure if what I think is correct. Please help me by clarifying that.
Thank you.
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Has moved is not the past simple. It's the present perfect. The natural choice is the second sentence since the sequence of tenses requires had to be used in a that-clause after the past tense told.
- Has moved is not the past simple.
- It's the present perfect.
- The natural choice is the second sentence since the sequence of tenses requires had to be used in a that-clause after the past tense told.
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Has moved is not the past simple. It's the present perfect. The natural choice is the second sentence since the sequence of tenses requires had to be used in a that-clause after the past tense told.
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If her moving on iis still relevant at the time of the reporting, the first is natural enough. The second is correct whatever the context.
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