Timeline for Present-Perfect: "hadn't heard" vs. "haven't heard"
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| Oct 6, 2012 at 17:16 | vote | accept | ekbass | ||
| Oct 6, 2012 at 12:16 | comment | added | Barrie England | @TimLymington: You're right. It's a matter of the time relation between the two verbs, but none of us can write an entire grammar book in a simple answer here. Space and other constraints inevitably mean withholding part, often a large part, of the truth. | |
| Oct 6, 2012 at 11:56 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Not certain about 'considerably before'; I think it's any time specifically in the past. For example, there's nothing wrong with "Five minutes ago I heard a song I hadn't heard before." But nitpicking aside, +1. | |
| Oct 6, 2012 at 9:29 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |