LeTyan
Member
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2011
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
Hi,
I once said a sentence like this.
"I studied all the past exams and quizzes to prep for the final, but when I was sitting in the classroom taking the final, I realized that the final is way more difficult than any past exam I ever had (here I know that grammatically, I was supposed to use past perfect, which is "had had"."
But how about in spoken English? Is it mandatory? "had had" sounds weird to me anyway...
Thank you!
I once said a sentence like this.
"I studied all the past exams and quizzes to prep for the final, but when I was sitting in the classroom taking the final, I realized that the final is way more difficult than any past exam I ever had (here I know that grammatically, I was supposed to use past perfect, which is "had had"."
But how about in spoken English? Is it mandatory? "had had" sounds weird to me anyway...
Thank you!