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Voytaszek Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Using past perfect with different dates
Is this correct?
1. `In 1999 I finished my school, but I had left it for a while in 1998, and I had started my adventure with shool in 1996`.
2. `I came to USA in 2004, before that I had lived in Poland for almost whole my life and than I (had?) lived in France for two years`.
1. `In 1999 I finished my school, but I had left it for a while in 1998, and I had started my adventure with shool in 1996`.
2. `I came to USA in 2004, before that I had lived in Poland for almost whole my life and than I (had?) lived in France for two years`.
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Voytaszek Is this correct? Probably too much past perfect. Remember that past perfect is quite formal and has only two uses: (1) to clarify the order of occurrence of two past actions when that order is othewise unclear.
- Voytaszek Is this correct?
- Probably too much past perfect.
- Remember that past perfect is quite formal and has only two uses: (1) to clarify the order of occurrence of two past actions when that order is othewise unclear.
- (2) to emphasize the precedence of one past action over another past action.
- Consequently, your sentences would most naturally read like this (considering that they have other problems also): I started my adventure with school in 1996, and in 1999 I finished it, but I left it for a while in 1998 I came to the USA in 200 4; be fore that I lived in Poland for most of my life and then lived in France for two years.
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VoytaszekIs this correct?Probably too much past perfect. Remember that past perfect is quite formal and has only two uses:
(1) to clarify the order of occurrence of two past actions when that order is othewise unclear.
(2) to emphasize the precedence of one past action over another past action.
Consequently, your sentences would most na
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