My mother had been cooking...

[subhajit123]

Is the following sentence structured grammatically?

1- My mother had been cooking since 6 o'clock before he left for the office.

 

[subhajit123]

It would be just about possible with 'when' rather than 'before' but I think it's a sentence that no native speaker would produce.

How will you structure this?

 

[teechar]

The sentence is somewhat unclear. Who is "he"? Can you write the sequence of events in point form please?

 

[Rover_KE]

We need to know who 'he' is, unless you meant to write 'she'.

 

[andrewg927]

"She" would be a lot more natural without further context.

 

[subhajit123]

We need to know who 'he' is, unless you meant to write 'she'.

Here he means my dad. Sorry I should have written my dad instead.:up:

 

[emsr2d2]

It's still somewhat unnatural for the reasons Piscean stated in post #6. However, it is possible to combine those three facts into a more natural sentence.

By the time my dad left for work at 8am, my mum had already been up and cooking for two hours.