Thursday, March 29, 2012

Use of the wrong tense

Using the past tense instead of the past perfect.

Don’t say: The train already left before I arrived.

ΓΌ Say: The train had already left before I arrived.

Use the past perfect when the time of one past action is more past than that of another. Put the action which was completed first in the past perfect and the second action in the past tense.

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