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Serious problems with the tense "had"

by daphyy » Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:33 am
Hey, I was wondering if anyone could offer tricks for figuring out the correct tense in SC. I'm having serious problems with "had", I seem to miss problems with this every time .. maybe cuz I'm not a native speaker..sighs. I can't figure out what happened before or after or if it's ongoing..

Help!
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by hanuljhamb » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:49 pm
Hi Dapphy,

The usage of 'had' is done in sentences where-in there are 2 depending sentences. Eg.:

"when he had gone to school, the postman arrived."

which says that postman arrived when he was not available. We cant say - the postman had arrived, when he went to school. THis will give a totally different meaning.
So take it as a rule, chose 'had' only when there are 2 depending sents.

Else in other cases has is used. like:
"He has gone to school".

We cant use had in above case alone. we can only used it when we say it with some other depending sentence.

I hope it has not confusd you even more.

Do let me know !! :)
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by daphyy » Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:58 am
I get it, that makes sense, I'll think of this when I do my SC problems in the future!
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