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Kingston123 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

What type of tenses are used in this sentence?

Sentence: Colin had tried to become a circus performer prior to a filmy career.

had tried means past perfect or past?

prior to a filmy career. Is it simple present tense?. Because right now Colin is pursuing a filmy career.

  

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kingston123 film y This is incorrect. Did you mean film ?

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kingston123filmy

This is incorrect. Did you mean film?

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"had tried" is past perfect.

There is no tense in "prior to a filmy career" because there is no verb.

(We'd say "film career".)

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