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Questions about Past Perfect tense
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Using Past Simple when talking about an event which was happening for a while before another...
I always thought when a person is speaking of two past events, they should use the Past Perfect tense for the earlier event. Like this:
"I had been explaining (Past Perfect) this rule to you for h …
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The ways to indicate a state or an action which lasted and then ended at or before some poin...
I feel quite confused. If I want to say that something was true or was happening for a while before some point in the past, what ways does English give me to express that?
If I want to express that s …
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