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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6542 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 33 of 35 17 March 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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These are fine as quick answers, like "Have you managed to find him?" - "[No,] he had left."
Without such a context these are spectacularly wrong too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4027 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 34 of 35 30 March 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Another question:
The course director had recommended that I repeat the class when I went to see him. Is the above ok? The "had recommended" can go with "I went"? Or should it be "when I had gone..."? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 4961 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 35 of 35 30 March 2014 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
If what I remember from grammar class is correct, I think it should be either of the following sentences: The course director recommended that I repeat the class when I went to see him. The course director recommended that I repeat the class when I had gone to see him. When you say "the course director had recommended... when I went to see him", you are saying that the director recommended it before you went to meet him. That is, just after the director gave the recommendation, you went to see him. It goes without saying that I would like to be corrected if I am wrong. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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