Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar
Simple past past perfect
could you please tell me the defferance bettween simple past and past perfect and how i can use them?
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Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past. " The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.
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Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past.
For example -
"I ate two cookies yesterday." The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.
For example -
"I ate two cookies yesterday." The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.
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