Dominik92
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Hello
I was told I can create sentences like:
- Before I met him he had contacted/he contacted the company.
Both past perfect and past simple are ok.
However I was told that in the following sentence below there should be past perfect (here the continuous form) and past simple would be wrong.
- Before he realized he was alone he had been driving for 8 hours.
My question is what makes it that much different that once it is up to me which tense I will choose and then there is the same construction but only one option is correct. As a non native speaker I would like to know the grammatically correct use.
Would it be possible to help me with three more sentences?
- Before he went out he had found it.
- Before I was allowed to work with them I had read 50 books to know more details about it
- Before Conan Doyle became a writer he had studied a medicine.
Following grammar rules could I use past simple in the second parts of these sentences?
Thank you very much
I was told I can create sentences like:
- Before I met him he had contacted/he contacted the company.
Both past perfect and past simple are ok.
However I was told that in the following sentence below there should be past perfect (here the continuous form) and past simple would be wrong.
- Before he realized he was alone he had been driving for 8 hours.
My question is what makes it that much different that once it is up to me which tense I will choose and then there is the same construction but only one option is correct. As a non native speaker I would like to know the grammatically correct use.
Would it be possible to help me with three more sentences?
- Before he went out he had found it.
- Before I was allowed to work with them I had read 50 books to know more details about it
- Before Conan Doyle became a writer he had studied a medicine.
Following grammar rules could I use past simple in the second parts of these sentences?
Thank you very much
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