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Old 23-Nov-2006, 10:05
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Default Re: Sentence rewriten

Well, I personally would probably say:

No sooner had he got home than he started writing the letter.

Which means I would probably use the past perfect, but both are okay, I think. Hehehehe, thats a pretty tricky bit that I never thought about, even though I use it sometimes. AFAIK, "no sooner" is not tied to any tense, except that, being a comparison, you must use 'than' with it.
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