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name_NULL111653@pawb.social 10 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.)
Comment on A good deal of IT work, too
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 10 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.)
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
i.e. at all before that time
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 10 months ago
In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
saigot@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
No English speaker would say it life that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”