• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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    37 months ago

    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.)

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      -97 months ago

      It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 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
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          No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.

              • @schmidtster
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                7 months ago

                For someone who only posts insulting others and correcting (incorrectly a bunch too….) their grammar, you sure lack any amount of reading comprehension.

                Its always the loudest people who are the most guilty, I appreciate the lengths you go to prove this is still true.

                • StrikerM
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                  17 months ago

                  @[email protected] I see a lot of toxic behaviour from you here and I will be keeping a closer eye on you in the future.

                  As you @[email protected] try not to bring disputes started in other comment chains into this one.

                  • @schmidtster
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                    7 months ago

                    I’ve tried just reporting them before. Doesn’t seem to do anything, so sorry for having to point it out. See this person all over Lemmy in lots of communities.

                    And just had an interaction yesterday, so had to see what was new with them. Again, my apologies for bringing this to your attention, wasn’t bringing an argument in.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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        17 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
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          -27 months ago

          He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.

          • @[email protected]
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            7 months ago

            No native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.

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              7 months ago

              No native English speaker would say it like you said.