Using ‘after’
Are all the following sentences grammatical and similar in meaning?
1) John went to the supermarket after he had gone to the library.
2) John went to the supermarket after he went to the library.
3) John went to the supermarket after the library.
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gray train 479 1) John went to the supermarket after he had gone to the library. " gray train 479 2) John went to the supermarket after he went to the library. This is standard if all you mean is the time sequence.
- gray train 479 1) John went to the supermarket after he had gone to the library.
- " gray train 479 2) John went to the supermarket after he went to the library.
- This is standard if all you mean is the time sequence.
- gray train 479 3) John went to the supermarket after the library.
- This is natural colloquial English.
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gray train 4791) John went to the supermarket after he had gone to the library.
I would not expect the perfect unless there was a reason for it, such as "John went to the supermarket only after he had gone to the library."
gray train 4792) John went to the supermarket after he went to the library.
This is standard
0gray train 479Are all the following sentences grammatical and similar in meaning?
1) John went to the supermarket after he had gone to the library.
2) John went to the supermarket after he went to the library.
3) John went to the supermarket after the library.
Yes, but in 3) I'd write "after going to the library".
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