By Paragraphs, Past perfect

The past perfect tense serves only to place a narration in the "more distant past," without determining its particular time or duration, as follows: "He had risen early that morning and had drunk coffee earlier than usual. – Wikipedia. There are many ways to express an idea. Why...

I think New2grammar said that, to him, a past perfect always precedes a present. It seems that is not always correct, isn't it?? CalifJim wrote: To be sure, I think we'd need at least one paragraph that precedes this sentence. Maybe the first part about the dogs should have read...

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...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Hi, I still don't understand a lot of what you are talking about. However, I'll try to suggest some improvements to this. The main one is that I don't see any reason to use the Past Perfect. Q. But why it did it lapse? At the time I took this connection, I was told that this was a life-time...

Hi, 1. On the Thursday, May 10, 2007 issue of the Korea Herald in its Editorials/Opinion page, I saw this paragraph in the article titled "Paths taken by European nations and Korea": In the race between the two candidates, the people of France sided with Sarkozy. That's because the French, who...

The past perfect should be minimized here also. It is awkward and slows the narrative painfully.The second sentence is not one.Responsible for myself, not me.

It's a question of when "I'm not inviting you to Maryino” was said. Was it said in the same time frame as the time frame of the story as shown in the paragraph that precedes this quote? Or did it take place some time before the time established in the preceding material? It seems to me...

Thanks you, Jim! Here goes the whole paragraph: «Day after day, through all that August, morning and evening were wrappedin haze; day after day the earth shimmered in the heat, and the air wasstrange, unfamiliar. As he wandered in the lanes and sauntered by thecool sweet verge of the woods, he...

Hi, 1. Past Perfect Not a good idea for the paragraph we are looking at. generally, it's a common error to use Past Perfect when Simple Past is better. 2. (would+V2): I would ride... Yes, that's OK, if you want to write about 'past habits/routines'. Best wishes, Clive