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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Maria Fernandez is Spanish. She lives in Madrid, where she works for an export company. She has been with this company for two years now. At the moment she is studying English on a one-month intensive course in London. She has been in London for one week now. She arrived there last Saturday. This is not Maria's first time in Britain. She has been there twice before.
My question: I think past perfect is a better choice in the last sentence. What is your opinion?
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Please help me with this.Maria Fernandez is Spanish. She lives in Madrid, where she works for an export company. She has been with this company for two years now. At the moment she is studying English on a one-month intensive course in London. She has been in London for one week now. She arrived there last Saturday. This is not Maria's first time in Britain. She has been there twice before.
My question: I think past perfect is a better choice in the last sentence. What is your opinion?
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vsuresh I think past perfect is a better choice in the last sentence. What is your opinion? No.
- vsuresh I think past perfect is a better choice in the last sentence.
- What is your opinion?
- No.
- Not at all.
- Except for "arrived", everything is in the present point of view.
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vsuresh I think past perfect is a better choice in the last sentence. What is your opinion?No. Not at all. Except for "arrived", everything is in the present point of view. "had been" would jump from the present across the past to the more-than-past for no reason. In other words, you would need more sentences in the past before you could reasonably introd
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