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Old 31-Jan-2008, 17:48
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Default Re: a tense question

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Dear teachers.

He did not wish to die and I like to think he didn't know he was dying.
But I knew I was deluding myself when I went to visit him that night right before his death.
I came into his room, and for the first time in all the years I ( ) him there was tears in his eyes.
I sat down beside him and waited a long time before I could say something.

which tense is more correct, knew or had known in the parenthesis above?

I wonder if both are correct or not.

thanks in advance!
your help would be much appreciated.
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