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Summ3r.ros3@hotmail.com Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

What's the difference of these sentences?

Hi,

"Susan had the cake baked."

What is the tense of the sentence? Is it Past Perfect?

Is it different when I say "Susan had baked the cake? Do both sentences have the same meaning?

Thank you
  

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" What is the tense of the sentence? Is it Past Perfect? It's the simple past of 'had'.

— CalifJim

  • " What is the tense of the sentence?
  • Is it Past Perfect?
  • It's the simple past of 'had'.
  • It's not past perfect.
  • com Is it different when I say "Susan had baked the cake?
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summ3r.ros3@hotmail.com"Susan had the cake baked." What is the tense of the sentence? Is it Past Perfect?
It's the simple past of 'had'. It's not past perfect.
summ3r.ros3@hotmail.comIs it different when I say "Susan had baked the cake? Do both sentences have the same meaning?
They are different.

Susan had baked
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I have just wasted my time responding to this question elsewhere in the forum. Please do not post questions more than once.
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fivejedjonI have just wasted my time responding to this question elsewhere in the forum. Please do not post questions more than once.
Hmmm.
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The original thread was posted anonymously. This sort of duplicate posting is never going stop until anonymous posting is disabled, which I'm all for.
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