Timeline for Past perfect justified?
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| Feb 7, 2017 at 2:20 | comment | added | TimR | @user5577. Do you understand what the word corroboration means? | |
| Feb 6, 2017 at 20:36 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | But you could have used past simple were sent in the second example because a year earlier indicate clearly the moment he sent the records | |
| Feb 6, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | TimR | @FumbleFingers: I like KISS as much as the next guy, but sometimes you want the tense and time-phrases to corroborate an idea, to mark it explicitly, even if such corroboration is not absolutely necessary. I've given such an example, where one might want to emphasize with the past perfect and the time phrases the sequence of events in the past. | |
| Feb 6, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | OP is specifically asking whether to use the past perfect or not, but you don't seem to have addressed this. You've just given two examples, one using simple past and the other using past perfect - but so far as I can see they could just as easily have both used the same tense (which could be either, though as usual I'd always suggest the KISS approach). | |
| Feb 6, 2017 at 18:22 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |