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Newguest Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

simple past/past perfect

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001. This morning most of the students arrived at school fifteen minutes after the lesson had begun.02br
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002. The traffic was terrible, so by the time we arrived at the airport, our flight had left.02br
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003. When we met I had a strange feeling I had seen him somewhere else.02br
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00I would use the past perfect in all of them, however I'm wondering if this would also be fine to use the past simple in the first one, i.e., .....the lesson began? Would you change something?0-
  

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0 The past perfect (pluperfect) is correct in all three sentences. They refer to an action completed before another action expressed in the past. Good job.

— Philip

  • 0 The past perfect (pluperfect) is correct in all three sentences.
  • They refer to an action completed before another action expressed in the past.
  • Good job.
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0 The past perfect (pluperfect) is correct in all three sentences. They refer to an action completed before another action expressed in the past. Good job. 0-
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0CJ, could you help me understand why 'fine' is incorrect? I thought fine and all right were interchangable.0-
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0 "This" is definitely wrong, as you're describing a general, abstract situation, which needs "it". "Fine" is just less used than "all right" as shown in my previous posting. 0-
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Google Books: 12br
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0 "It" will sound 01b00correct. 02b00"All right" will sound better for more people, which is what you want. 0-
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