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    dilodi83 is offline Senior Member
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    Default are they all grammatically possible?

    1) I've been having lots of problems with my computer recently and so I got a technician to come and have a llok at it, but she has told me that it was because I hadn't used it properly.

    2) I've been having lots of problems with my computer recently and so I got a technician to come and have a llok at it, but she told me that it was because I wasn't using it properly.

    3) I've been having lots of problems with my computer recently and so I got a technician to come and have a llok at it, but she told me that it was because I hadn't used it properly.

    Are they all grammatically possible?

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    Default Re: are they all grammatically possible?

    For a start, spell look correctly and put a full stop after '. . .have a look at it'.

    '. . .but' is not a suitable conjunction in this context.

    Make the second sentence She told me I hadn't been using it properly or She told me I wasn't using it properly.

    Note that Problems with my computer would have been a better thread title.

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    dilodi83 is offline Senior Member
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    Default Re: are they all grammatically possible?

    Thanks so much for your advice
    I got that the past perfect continuous and the past continuous are good in this sentence, but why couldn't I write the past perfect simple? Is it incorrect?

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