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This tag is for questions specifically related to the English language as spoken and written in the USA. If you are interested in a difference between American English and British English, please use transatlantic-differences.

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Is it possible to be grammatically correct without using past perfect?

I don't think the second example needed to have the changes to the past perfect. The changes sound unnatural to me. (I am a native American English speaker.) The sequence of events is clear without th …
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