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user 201923
This tag is for questions about tense, or location in time by grammatical forms and constructions rather than by semantics.
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I was excited to learn that you have returned to town
As the first part of the sentence "I was excited" is in simple past tense, the next part should also be in past tense. … Now, according to rules, when two past actions are present in a single sentence, the one which occured earlier should be in past perfect tense and the other one should be in past indefinite. …
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