Timeline for past simple or past perfect why
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| Mar 22, 2015 at 23:23 | answer | added | Cheezmeister | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:57 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | No nothing has been omitted now come-back is written like that and there are six dots before silence So you want the question to be rewrite will do it | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | user6951 | In addition, now that you have double-checked the sleeve notes and found you made some errors, you should edit your original question and correct the quotation. That is, the corrections should not appear in a comment (only) but be included in your question post. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:51 | comment | added | user6951 | @user5577 this is one reason I asked you to check the sleeve notes, because standard usage would be to include was. So, since the absence of was seemed irregular, I wondered if anything else had been omitted. Also, I have the same questions regarding "come back" and the number of periods in the ellipsis. And since you are quoting material, it's necessary to reproduce (write) the material exactly right, not just some of it right. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | No I have just double checked and I have not forgotten any "had" . Anyway it is true that I have changed the first sentence , here is the original :" The last story I heard was that label boss Alan McGee had tried to organise a come-back concert, in a last deseperate attempt at giving the bandback some confidence". The last sentence is :"Silence, that is, until late last year when two seperate reports reached me about the same time." | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 16:41 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 16:35 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | @δοῦλος I think it came out a little too strong, though your point is clear and valid. To the OP, it might be true that your spellings may have nothing to do with the grammar, but then again it might as well be. Frankly, the first time I saw your question (there was still no comment), I wondered if it might be possible that you dropped a had somewhere, and Mc Gee should've been McGee, or maybe come back should've been comeback, why there are many dots in the ellipses? (it should be 3), how they wrote silence, and so on. And I can't crosscheck the sleeve notes. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | user6951 | I mean that I already took 5-10 minutes to edit your post to make it clearer, so that people can provide better answers. And that I was asking for your help, regarding the sleeve notes and your first sentence. So, if you are not willing to put in a few minutes to correct a few known errors, why should anyone care to give you a carefully worded answer? | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:49 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | So careful answers of course. Is it not possible to answer to my question without spelling McGee correctly ? So you think I should write "the band went to the studio and burned all the tapes they had ever recorded and then demolished everything in the studio.This is what you mean in your last sentence? – | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | user6951 | So do you want sloppy or careful answers? | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | Yes you are right, but if I made a mistake that is because my question is on tenses not on spelling McGee or missing commas. As far as the tenses are concerned , I did not make any errors | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | user6951 | Are you sure you typed in the material from the sleeve notes exactly as it is, including all the commas, spaces, and capital words, and that you double-checked it? Because McGee usually doesn't have a space in it. And there may or may not be a missing comma in the notes. Also, double-check your first sentence for these same issues. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:10 | history | edited | user6951 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2015 at 14:20 | history | asked | Yves Lefol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |