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Why is “had” ok in “What he had just said, especially that final sentence, really enlightened me”?
I’m writing a short prose piece for an academic audience and need to know whether the following sentence sounds right, especially its first clause:
What he had just said, especially that final ...
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Simple past sounds better but past perfect seems more accurate
I think it's grammatically more accurate to say,"The market was closed after a virus had been found." However, it sounds "better" to say,"The market was closed after a virus was found." Grammatically, ...
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