marmoset
Junior Member
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2011
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
Hi there.
I'm a native-English-speaking assistant English teacher at a Japanese high school. But, I'm rusty on some grammar details.
Today the real teachers are checking the exams of the students who want to enter this high school. One of the real teachers asked me about a sentence that appeared on the test.The sentence is, "This was one of the most interesting activities I've ever had".
The teacher knows and teaches the rule about using past perfect for actions that happen before another past action. But in this case, I can imagine kids or speakers of uncommon dialects speaking this way. I can't quite wrap my mind around whether or not this is grammatically OK or not. Is it grammatically OK to use either present perfect OR past perfect? Does it differ between SAE or SBE?
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I'm a native-English-speaking assistant English teacher at a Japanese high school. But, I'm rusty on some grammar details.
Today the real teachers are checking the exams of the students who want to enter this high school. One of the real teachers asked me about a sentence that appeared on the test.The sentence is, "This was one of the most interesting activities I've ever had".
The teacher knows and teaches the rule about using past perfect for actions that happen before another past action. But in this case, I can imagine kids or speakers of uncommon dialects speaking this way. I can't quite wrap my mind around whether or not this is grammatically OK or not. Is it grammatically OK to use either present perfect OR past perfect? Does it differ between SAE or SBE?
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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