New answers tagged past-vs-past-perfect
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“She played for a while” vs "She had played for a while"
Past perfect is generally used when you're describing an action that has completed at the time you're referring to. So the article uses it when talking about Kim having moved to LA, because that was ...
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“She played for a while” vs "She had played for a while"
I'm not sure it needs "explanation", because "had played" would also be reasonable. I suppose you might interpret the (probably unconscious) choice to shift from past perfect to ...
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