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Could you please help me with choosing the right verb tense in this sentence:
Dan: Did you have a sleeping bag?
Jeff: Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that (go on sale) for only $35.
I'm wavering between Past Simple and Past Perfect. As far as I understand, Past Simple can be used there since buying a sleeping bag is a complete action with an implied time reference (that time he was at the store) but there also Past Perfect can be used since sleeping bag going on sale happened before he had bought it
Could you please help me with choosing the right verb tense in this sentence:
Dan: Did you have a sleeping bag?
Jeff: Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that (go on sale) for only $35.
I'm wavering between Past Simple and Past Perfect. As far as I understand, Past Simple can be used there since buying a sleeping bag is a complete action with an implied time reference (that time he was at the store) but there also Past Perfect can be used since sleeping bag going on sale happened before he had bought it
Dan: Did you have a sleeping bag?
Jeff: Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that (go on sale) for only $35.
I'm wavering between Past Simple and Past Perfect. As far as I understand, Past Simple can be used there since buying a sleeping bag is a complete action with an implied time reference (that time he was at the store) but there also Past Perfect can be used since sleeping bag going on sale happened before he had bought it
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Конечно, я могу помочь вам с выбором правильного времени глагола в этом предложении. В данном случае, правильным выбором будет Past Perfect - "had gone on sale". Использование Past Perfect в данном контексте указывает на то, что событие "sleeping bag going on sale" произошло до другого прошедшего события - "I had just bought a really good one". Таким образом, Past Perfect помогает установить последовательность событий в прошлом. Вот исправленное предложение: "Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that had gone on sale for only $35." Надеюсь, это поможет вам разобраться с выбором времени в английском языке!
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You have more than one option.
Most common: one that was on sale. It was on sale; it might still be on sale.
Also could say: one that had been on sale. It was in sale when I bought it, but the sale is over.
Also could say: one that happened to have been on sale. Same as before, but now introducing a feeling of a very lucky meeting of my need with timing if the sale in the past.
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You are right. You can use either past simple or past perfect and it would be a correct answer.
Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that went on sale for only $35.
Yes. Luckily, I had just bought a really good one that had gone on sale for only $35.
Both of these sentences above are correct.
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