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minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoTake an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·8 months agoIt’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
minus-squareTheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoWell the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoIn the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·8 months agoHe stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
minus-squaresaigot@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoNo native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoNo native English speaker would say it like you said.
Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)
It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
Well the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense
In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
No native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.
No native English speaker would say it like you said.