Okay well i understood this parts: A simple past describes only a single event occuring in the past. I know about the past perfect that's why i mentioned it. Btw, i also saw that example in one of your earlier posts while i was

Yes, I used the present perfect instead of the past perfect. I had had my pc reformatted before I bought a new monitor. (but the simple past will do just fine here)

Past perfect is not necessary, I agree, but I'm not sure that simple past is better, even if the grammar calls for it. The writer wishes to stress the length of time between the past seeing and the present greeting, I think.

She told me that he had come home late that night. Past perfect use is not correct in the sentence. "she told me" is a reported speech, not an event. "He came home late..." is one simple past event. So "came" is

Hi, Both are correct depending on the contexts. Because of phrase, "two days ago", I'd prefer the simple past tense (began). To use past perfect, the context must reflect the relevance of the events. By the time I got to the office,

No, your answers are confused. A-- Simple past statement. The train left as soon as he arrived; he was probably able to board it. B-- Past progressive, showing an action in process. Strictly speaking, the train was moving when he arrived

I did this on my own, but no answers were provided. I found these from various websites. Can you guys verify these for me? I mainly have problems with identifiing comma splice, run-on sentences, and some tenses identifications. I did them and I

But can we use the past perfect to describe just one action that happened in the past?-- No, not without some contextual reference to another past event: Rodel had been driving 120 miles per hour for thirty minutes when he hit the tree. And how

Hi, I am so confused with the English tTenses especially the past perfect tense. I was taught that we can use it to describe two actions that happened in the past and that we use the past perfect for the earliest action. But can we use the

My preference is to not use the past perfect if the order of events is clear. Simple past is fine. When you have words that provide cues like "before" or "after" or "until" it's clear enough. The past perfect is