Timeline for "He had had his nap" or "he had his nap"?
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 11:21 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 20, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | Zan700 | @stoneyB So this means that the sentence can't be judged as grammatically correct or incorrect out of the larger context. But what if the sentence were written as the OP suggested it could be: "He had his nap and there would be no local news until five o'clock." Can that sentence be judged grammatically correct or incorrect without context? Or something like "He ate his pie and will go to the circus at five o'clock." | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 8:48 | comment | added | TKallday | StoneyB, thank you for the response. Before posting the question, I debated on whether I should add the sentences you added for me. I didn't think they had anything to do with the sentence in question; clearly, I was wrong! This might sound silly, but I was not aware sentences could affect each other like that. Thank you for your valuable insight. | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 8:46 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 19, 2017 at 13:55 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |