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楼主
发表于 2009-10-25 22:42:00 | 只看该作者

about past perfect tense

Welcome anybody to tell me is the sentence below correct or not using past perfect tense.

I went to college in the year 2000
        after I had worked as a temporary worker in
        the year 1999.

I am puzzled about the sentence because there are two specific dates--the year 2000 and the year 1999-- in it.

I am not sure that:

do we need past perfect tense here to show the timing sequence of the two actions,

or can the two specific dates themselves clearly tell the timing sequence, so we don't need to use past perfect tense? 

Hope for your comments and thank you in advance.

沙发
发表于 2009-10-26 04:52:00 | 只看该作者
past perfect tense is not required here because "after" and "the year xxxx" indicate the sequence of the events.
however, it is not a correctiveness problem either.
板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2009-10-26 19:55:00 | 只看该作者
I got it, thank you!
地板
发表于 2019-9-21 08:59:28 | 只看该作者
AlienX 发表于 2009-10-26 04:52
past perfect tense is not required here because "after" and "the year xxxx" indicate the sequence of ...

同意!               
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