In Simple past^x, Past perfect^x

With "ever since," it seems that it's still current, and with "ever since" I found the past perfect to sound a bit odd! The only one that sounds completley right to my ear is: The town hall has been used ever since it took place. If it's no longer being used, then...

This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent. The only sentence that has a problem is, "We had worked together...and have always had good relationships...even after I have left... That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense. The rest of the paragraph is...

Hi Anon, We are not particularly interested in finding if someone is happy with our answers. So “I‘d be happy if…” does sound aweful to my ears. I had made this comment before and I am not sure you were the same poster. But I would make another attempt to make this point. If you want to be...

We use things like past perfect to make it clear what happened before something else. When you have a very clear marker like the word "before" the use of the past perfect isn't as important. A is fine and traditional. B. This is fine too because it's reported speech, which...

I agree with your analyses of 1.& 2., but I don't hear them as mutually exclusive. 1. could still be a single telling and 2. could still be multiple tellings - but the inference is as you suggest. Re #3, I get the feeling there's a third point in time which would have been...

Closer to past perfect (it's typically before some event), than simple past to me. Mostly present/future time.

Hello New Guest, I really understand what you are looking for because when I was at intermediate level, I was questioning everything like you and interested in thinking every sentence in detail. Past perfect tense was my favourite.I questioned and thought about its usage for years because it...

Hi, "I had suspected that you had sticky fingers, so I had security cameras installed" The part, "I had security cameras installed", is that the same as "I installed security cameras"? It kind of looks like it's in the passive form, but that would be...

"I had suspected that you had sticky fingers, so I had security cameras installed" The part, "I had security cameras installed", is that the same as "I installed security cameras"? It kind of looks like it's in the passive form, but that would be "security...

Hi,When we deal with one single event that occured in a specific time in the past, use the simple past tense. We use 'past perfect' to show sequence of events that happened in the past. Given two events, A and B, both happened and were over in the past, A first then B - we use the...