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by bblast » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:29 am
Reva wrote:She already woke up when the phone rang.

why is this sentence wrong .
two events in past happening at diff times..

she had already woken up when the phone rang
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by vatsalroxy » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:31 am
Because there are 2 events here and hence it should be accompanied by the time reference differentiators ( HAD BEEN/HAD + Simple VERB-ed) . Former event should be coupled with HAD/HAD BEEN and later event (Simple -ed form of verb)

So She had been awake when the phone rang!
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by bblast » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:43 am
correct, i thinkk i screwd up the meaning a bit
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by Reva » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:30 pm
vatsalroxy wrote:Because there are 2 events here and hence it should be accompanied by the time reference differentiators ( HAD BEEN/HAD + Simple VERB-ed) . Former event should be coupled with HAD/HAD BEEN and later event (Simple -ed form of verb)

So She had been awake when the phone rang!
i m little confused what is the difference between your sentence and bblast sentence .
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by vatsalroxy » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:48 pm
Above sentence is grammatically incorrect ! The inference is same though. When you are depicting 2 time references. The most past one say one occurred in 1990 and one now in 2011. The 1990 should be coupled with past perfect tense and the 2011 should be with simple verb+ed form.
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