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Clyde Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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00There is the sentence: "I stayed in NY for a couple of weeks and next I left for California where my father (had) settled down after the war." Shall I use the past perfect tense and write "had settled" or just "settled"?02br
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0 Yes, provided you went to California after your father had settled there, which is quite likely. 0-

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  • 0 Yes, provided you went to California after your father had settled there, which is quite likely.
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0 Yes, provided you went to California after your father had settled there, which is quite likely. 0-
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01cite10Clyde12cite10Hi everybody!12br
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10There is the sentence: "I stayed in NY for a couple of weeks and next I left for California where my father (had) settled down after the war." Shall I use the past perfect tense and write "had settled" or just "settled"?12br
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0 Yes, past perfect. 0-
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0 In other words, it's past before past. Literally.02br
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00PAST (your father's settling there) BEFORE PAST (your going there) 0-
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