Timeline for Past perfect for repeated activity in the past
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| May 12, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | Andrew | @Karolini Yes, the perfect tenses are normally used to establish a temporal relationship between two events -- some action A had occurred before some action B. So "I had taken pills ... before I realized I was allergic to them." But even there I'm inclined to use the past perfect continuous, "I had been taking pills four times every day ..." This context is odd, but there might be a different context where the past perfect sounds fine. | |
| May 12, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | Karolini | Thank you. Are there any meaning differences between simple and perfect form in such sentences? | |
| May 12, 2018 at 15:24 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |