TitoBr
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Hi there!
I prepared this short explanation about past perfect, trying to avoid too much grammar. Would you guys add/suggest something else?
I was researching the world 'indulgent', which is a positive adjective, and I found this sentence.
He had been a strict father but was indulgent to/towards his grandchildren.
This is a very good example of the use of past perfect. There are two facts being narrated in this sentence. Both happened in the past. But which one happened first?
You don't need to know grammar to say that being a father happened before than being a grandfather. This is the natural order of things. But whenever you wanna talk about 2 things in the past, you use the past perfect ('He had been...') for the the first fact and simple past ('...was...') for the second fact.
I prepared this short explanation about past perfect, trying to avoid too much grammar. Would you guys add/suggest something else?
I was researching the world 'indulgent', which is a positive adjective, and I found this sentence.
He had been a strict father but was indulgent to/towards his grandchildren.
This is a very good example of the use of past perfect. There are two facts being narrated in this sentence. Both happened in the past. But which one happened first?
You don't need to know grammar to say that being a father happened before than being a grandfather. This is the natural order of things. But whenever you wanna talk about 2 things in the past, you use the past perfect ('He had been...') for the the first fact and simple past ('...was...') for the second fact.
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