Hello everybody
Could anybody tell me the difference between the given sentences?
1-I cooked the dinner before I went out.
2-I cooked the dinner before I had gone out.
Tom
Hello everybody
Could anybody tell me the difference between the given sentences?
1-I cooked the dinner before I went out.
2-I cooked the dinner before I had gone out.
Tom
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I like #1; #2 is extremely difficult to rationalize, and I am tempted to call it a non-native construct.
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Thanks again
If I alter the sentences a bit?
1- I had cooked the dinner before I went out.
2- I cooked the dinner before I went out.
Is your opinion still the same or there seems to be some difference between the sentences?
Tom
Hi Tom
I think both of the sentences (in the second set) are OK, and I don’t really think there’s much difference other than maybe that the past perfect tends to emphasize the sequence of events more.
But my knee-jerk reaction to sentence 1 would also be to add the word already:
I’d already cooked the dinner before I went out.
Amy