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Old 30-Aug-2006, 16:25
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Default past perfect or past tense?

It was the first and last time they had done something like that.
It was the first and last time they did something like that.


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Default Re: past perfect or past tense?

It could be either depending on the context for me- depending on the time of doing and whether it was linked to another action.
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