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 Re: Doubt in the use of Past Perfect or Simple past in an If-clause
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Originally Posted by omidonline You are right. Thanks for the contribution you made.
Language is not mathematics, we all know that. There's no such thing as a fixed set of rules governing the grammar a language, and English is no exception.
On making that statement, GENERALITY was what I had in mind.  | Agreed, but I do like the exceptions. |