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Hi, all
Here are two examples of Past Perfect usage:
Roman
Here are two examples of Past Perfect usage:
- Jane was furious because she’d overslept and missed the bus.
- Mary was very disappointed with her son. He hadn’t studied enough and had failed his exams.
- In 1) we use "and missed the bus" instead of "and had missed the bus" because we can omit "had" in that case (the second occurrence of "had" would only repeat the first one)
- In 2) we can't omit "had" in "had failed his exams" because it's don't repeat the first occurrence.
- Omitting the second occurrence is not possible for "hadn't". For example, we can't say "Mary was very disappointed with her son. He hadn’t studied enough and passed his exams." (meaning that "he hadn't passed his exams"). We should say "He hadn’t studied enough and hadn't passed his exams."
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