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ENGLISH
PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Polibius | |
E-mail: | não-disponível | |
Data: | 04/JAN/2013 11:19 AM | |
Assunto: | past perfect | |
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The problem with grammar is that the more we analyse it the richer it becomes. I remember one exercise at university that we manipulated the text ver froms so that it had a different flavor, the choice of verb tenses is more to do with subtleties than rules, in this case the rules simply try to capture what someone is trying to convey and surely sometimes some forms won't do. And also I rushed into explanation without giving it a better thought, I'll correct myself now. Bob and I just got engaged, so we went to a jewelry store to buy a wedding ring. ----[get engaged]----------------------[go to a jewlry store]-------------------------> We see a sequence of events, but also notice that the events are tied, we could paraphrase the sentence as we went to a jewlry store (that day) because we had got engaged, one (go to a jewlry store) is consequence of the other (get engaged). We had just chosen a ring when a man with a gun came in.
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