I('d) just had a little to much to drink.

[Topstudent]

Dialog:

A: Do you wanna talk about what happened last night? I've never seen you like that before.
B: I know. I completely lost my head. I think I('d) just had a little too much to drink.
(B is trying to downplay his mistake)

Questions:
1) Would you use the past perfect tense here or not? What would be natural?
2) Where would you place 'just'? Where I have or before 'think'?

 

[emsr2d2]

1. Past perfect.
2. You could put it in either position. Having said that, I probably wouldn't use "I think" there at all. Person B is probably pretty sure of the reason for their behaviour. I'd say "I'd [just] had a bit too much to drink".

 

[5jj]

. Person B is probably pretty sure of the reason for their behaviour. I'd say "I'd [just] had a bit too much to drink".

You might. I might say "I suppose it's conceivable that some narrow-minded bigots might claim that I nearly reached my personal limit".

 

[probus]

Although the gramatically correct tense in a) is the past perfect (I'd had.. ), in AmE many people would use the simple past: I just had a little too much to drink.