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Andrei Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

The past perfect tense

0 1. I went out after I had had my dinner. 02br
002. She got married as soon as she had completed her studies. 02br
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00I found the above two sentences on a web site which describes the past perfect tense in English. 02br
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00I would agree with the second sentence of the above. It is a clear past perfect sentence. 02br
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00She got married --> May be in the year 2002 02br
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00She completed her studies --> May be in the year 2001 02br
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00Today we are in the year 2005. The basic requirement is 'past in the past' to write past perfect tense. 02br
00Today or rather in the year 2005, we are talking about two events which took place in 2001 and 2002. 02br
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00I am not comfortable with the first sentence. Is it a correct past perfect sentence? 0-
  

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0 I went out after I had had my dinner. = I went out after I had EATEN my dinner. 02br 02br 00Now you can answer your question by yourself, I think?

— Eimai_Anglos

  • 0 I went out after I had had my dinner.
  • = I went out after I had EATEN my dinner.
  • 02br 02br 00Now you can answer your question by yourself, I think?
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0 I went out after I had had my dinner. = I went out after I had EATEN my dinner. 02br
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00Now you can answer your question by yourself, I think? 0-
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0 Thanks Elmal 02br
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00Now it is clear to me. 0-
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0 I had brushed my teeth before having breakfast. 02br
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00Is the above fine? I mean whether it is correct past perfect sentence. 0-
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0 Hello Andrei 02br
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00 1. I went out after I had eaten my dinner. 02br
00 2. She got married as soon as she had completed her studies. 02br
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00If I were asked if they are grammatically correct, I would answer YES. But I feel they are somehow wordy. I rather go with: 02br
00 1. I went out after I ate/had my dinner. 
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0 Paco 02br
00I know it is not necessary to use past perfect. You can just use the simple past. Therefore ' I brused my teeth before breakfast' is more than enough. I just gave an example to illustrate the past perfect. 02br
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00So my question was whether the sentence was correct. 02br
00[ I had brushed my teeth before having breakfast.] 02br
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0 I had brushed my teeth before having breakfast. 02br
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00Is the above fine? I mean whether it is correct past perfect sentence. 02br
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00Yes , it's fine, Andrei, in the right circumstances. The past perfect is used to add semantic significance. In a normal neutral situation, the simple past would be t
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0 hi, 02br
00I went out after I had had my dinner. 02br
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00if i were andry 02br
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00i would say " i went out after i had dinner or i ate my dinner." 02br
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00and first sentence is incorrect i think 0-
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0 Thanks everybody for the replies 02br
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00Paco has written the following: 02br
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00By the way I brush my teeth after breakfast rather than before breakfast. 02br
00This would be better in economizing the time to keep our teeth healthy. 02br
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00In order to maintain healthy teeth, it would be better to
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Andrei 1. I went out after I had had my dinner.
2. She got married as soon as she had completed her studies.
I found the above two sentences on a web site which describes the past perfect tense in English.
I would agree with the second sentence of the above. It is a clear past perfect sentence.
She got married --> May be in the year 2002
She
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