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Tinanam0102 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Using Past Perfect with "last year"

Hi teachers,

Could you please tell me why past perfect is used with "last year" instead of past tense? My tutorial teacher used to tell me it was wrong about the choice of tense.

"Germany's biggest solar company, Q-Cells, had traded near 100 euro early lat year;, it's now about 10 euro."

"Do you remember John? He had written a paper on God's creation. He now is travelling to China."

Thank you.

Regards,

Tinanam
  

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Hi, In both of your examples, I see no reason to use Past Perfect. I'd just use Simple Past. If you have typed them correctly, other parts of the wording suggest to me that these sentences were not written by native speakers.

— Clive

  • Hi, In both of your examples, I see no reason to use Past Perfect.
  • I'd just use Simple Past.
  • If you have typed them correctly, other parts of the wording suggest to me that these sentences were not written by native speakers.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

In both of your examples, I see no reason to use Past Perfect. I'd just use Simple Past.

If you have typed them correctly, other parts of the wording suggest to me that these sentences were not written by native speakers.

Best wishes, Clive
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Hi Clive,

Thank you for your help. I'll remeber to use Simple Past.

I apologize for the typos I made in #1. For #2. I copied it down from a newsletter.

Regards,

Tinanam
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