Akdom Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Past Perfect share auxiliary HAD ?
1. Before they arrived, I had finished cooking and had set up the table.
2. Before they arrived, I had finished cooking and set up the table.
When using past perfect in the main clause, do I use "had" before all past particles? or can they share the auxiliry "had"?
3. Costumed in a kimono, our waitress had painted her face white and arranged her hair in an upswept lacquered beehive.
How about #3, the one with a participial phrase in the begining? Does #3 make sense? Grammatically correct?
2. Before they arrived, I had finished cooking and set up the table.
When using past perfect in the main clause, do I use "had" before all past particles? or can they share the auxiliry "had"?
3. Costumed in a kimono, our waitress had painted her face white and arranged her hair in an upswept lacquered beehive.
How about #3, the one with a participial phrase in the begining? Does #3 make sense? Grammatically correct?
Top answer
1 & 2-- They can share the auxiliary so long as the meaning is commonsensical and the verbs are truly parallel. 3-- Fine.
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1 & 2-- They can share the auxiliary so long as the meaning is commonsensical and the verbs are truly parallel.
3-- Fine.
3-- Fine.
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