Help me with past perfect?
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when a writer narrates, he/she needs to follow the "reported speech" rules.\nexample: \nwitness: i was asleep\nattorney: as you've heard ladies&gentleman, the witness just confessed that he had been asleep\nin your question, the first sentence sounds like a narration.\nhowever the second sentence is obviously not a reported speech (note the part "your client")
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Perfect in grammar means past. So the past subjunctive would be the only one of your choices not having a multiple word verb.
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Have someone you know help you form a full sentence and use correct punctuation...I don't have a clue what the hell you just tried to ask!
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The simple predicate is "finished."  \n\nHere is the whole sentence:\n\nThe  men finished the game in    a   short time.\nadj  sub verb     adj d.o. prep adj  adj   obj of prep
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I had taken algebra. Past tense.\nI ran versions of both sentence structures thru Microsoft Words grammar checker, and it didn't flag either one.
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Stop thinking just about what you should have done or what should have happened and accept what has happened...everything has a meaning behind it. Use experiences to learn from. Basically you just need to see what you have done and accept it and just know that there is no other way it goes or will go. The past has happened and that is the way it will be.
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use typing tutor. it will help u a lot
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Both sentences are quite OK as they stand.  Changing the tenses - as some answerers have suggested - would also subtly change the meanings.\n\nE.g.\nElsie disagreed with the group and resigned.  (She did both these things yesterday or last week).\nElsie disagreed with the group and has resigned.  (She disagreed with them yesterday and has just resigned very recently as a result).\n\nSharon has set her cap over her eyes and (has) laid a towel over her legs to protect herself from the sun.  (The 'has' in brackets is understood - this is called ellipsis.  This sentence suggests that you are sitting next to her and telling someone - perhaps by phone - what she has just done.)\n\nSharon set ... (The change of tense suggests that she did both things yesterday or last week etc.  This is a more 'usual or bland' meaning).\n\nTo lay a towel over your legs - or any other part of your body - is perfectly grammatical (past tense = laid a towel ...) whatever anyone else says.
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just get rid of the John and if the sentence makes sense use it\nfor example\nJohn and me went to the store.\nnot right\nbecause me went to the store makes no sense.\nJohn and I went to the store is correct.\n\nbut you would say me if it was the direct object of a verb. for example, the car hit john and i is incorrect,\nbecause the car hit i is gibberish.  the car hit me is correct. so the car hit john and me is correct.
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Use a verb in past tense (hacer - mandar - pedir and such verbs that denote you asked for something or you ordered something) and the main verb in infinitive.\n\nFor example:\n\nI have the car fixed: [Yo] hice arreglar el auto\n\nThey have the house cleaned: Ellos mandaron limpiar la casa
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Verb form\npetted\npast tense and past participle of the verb to pet
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old use (with a) and modern use (without a)
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The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past.\n\nIn English, there are two distinct types of past tense:\n\n   1. Present perfect (see perfect tense)\n   2. Preterite (or simple past)\n\nEach of these may also be found in the progressive (continuous) aspect.\n\n-----------------------------\n\nThe English continuous\n\n\nFormation\n\nThe continuous aspect is expressed with a regularly conjugated form of to be, together with the present participle of the main verb. For example, in the sentence "I was going to the store," the verb phrase was going is in the past continuous tense - that is, in the continuous aspect and the past tense.\n\nThe continuous aspect can be applied with any mood, voice, and tense, and in combination or not with the perfect aspect, although for obvious semantic reasons, some combinations are less common than others. Some examples of the continuous aspect include:\n\n    * We had been talking for hours. (indicative mood, active voice, past tense, perfect continuous aspect)\n    * If you're not going to be working on it the whole time, … (indicative mood, active voice, present tense, continuous aspect)\n    * … then I recommend you at least be working on it when the teacher gets back. (present subjunctive mood, active voice, continuous aspect)\n    * I wish I were being given more interesting tasks. (past subjunctive mood, passive voice, continuous aspect)\n\n[edit]\n\nUse\n\nThe continuous is generally used with actions that are actively on-going at the time in question, and does not focus on the larger time-scale. For example, the sentence "John was playing tennis when Jane called him" indicates what John was in the middle of doing when Jane called him, but does not indicate for how long John played, nor how often he plays; for that, the simple past would be used: "John played tennis three hours every day for several years."\n\nThe perfect continuous (have been doing), as a special case, implies that the action being described was interrupted at the time in question, and does not clarify whether the action resumed. For example, "John had been playing tennis when Jane called him" suggests that Jane's calling him interrupted his tennis-playing (whereas in the former example, it was possible that he simply ignored her call), and leaves open the possibility that what she told him required such urgent action that he forfeited his match and left.\n\nIn the present tense, the continuous aspect can be used to describe actions that have not begun yet; and in any tense, a similar effect can be achieved with the auxiliary "go" in its continuous aspect. An example of the former is "I'm taking three classes next semester"; of the latter, "I was going to do it if I had time, and then I didn't have time." In this use, this construction has a temporal (tense-like) quality in additional to its usual aspectual one.\n[edit]\n\nThe continuous in other languages\n\nWhile, as noted above, the term continuous is originally specific to English grammar, it can be extended to other languages that have similar constructions.\n[edit]\n\nFrench\n\nFrench does not have a continuous aspect per se; events that English would describe using its continuous aspect, French would describe using a neutral aspect. That being said, French can express a continuous sense using the periphrastic construction être en train de ("to be in the middle of"); for example, English's "we were eating" might be expressed in French either as nous étions en train de manger, or as simply nous mangions.\n[edit]\n\nJèrriais\n\nJèrriais constructs the continuous with verb êt' (be) + à (preposition) + infinitive. For example, j'têmes à mangi translates as we were eating.\n[edit]\n\nSpanish\n\nIn Spanish, the continuous is constructed much as in English, using a regularly conjugated form of the verb
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The 2nd sentence is correct and very formal; there is something like an old subjunctive form hidden in it.\nThe 1st sentence is (informally) not incorrect and could be found in British English.
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LEARNT???\n\nTHERE????\n\nMaybe you should have paid more attention to your English lessons - I think you mean to say that you "LEARNED" it; & 'THERE' is always a place, I think you mean 'They're'; and you may have a better chance of finding it - now you will be using better references to look for it! GOOD LUCK
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'get' is correct. The verb which needs to be in past tense is 'to do', not 'to get'