Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
why past perfect?
In the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary, for the defintional entry for the word "ointment". there is a phrase example that contains the word "ointment" and it is this:
If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment, you think they spoil a situation and spoil a situation and prevent it being as successful as you had hoped.
Why does it have to be "had hoped" at the end if it had to be that -- why not just "hoped"?
If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment, you think they spoil a situation and spoil a situation and prevent it being as successful as you had hoped.
Why does it have to be "had hoped" at the end if it had to be that -- why not just "hoped"?
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Hi, In the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary, for the defintional entry for the word "ointment". there is a phrase example that contains the word "ointment" and it is this: If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment , you think they spoil a situation and spoil a situation and prevent it being as successful as you had hoped. Why does it have to be "had hoped" at the end if it had to be that -- why not just "hoped"?
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Hi,
In the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary, for the defintional entry for the word "ointment". there is a phrase example that contains the word "ointment" and it is this:
If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment, you think they spoil a situation andspoil a situation and prevent it being as successful as you had hoped.
In the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary, for the defintional entry for the word "ointment". there is a phrase example that contains the word "ointment" and it is this:
If you describe someone or something as a fly in the ointment, you think they spoil a situation and
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