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Which categories of tense and aspct are the most problematic?
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Past perfect.
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Thanks, Mister Micawber, for your reply.
But would you please further elaborate your point, that
in what ways the past perfect is the most problematic in
tense and aspect?

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It just seems to be the form that students suffer most needless heartache over.
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