2017年6月15日 · You can't say that 'when we were children we had made our own toys' because you would be using past perfect tense incorrectly. The difference between the two sentences is that. When we were children, we made our own toys. makes use of the simple past tense and is grammatically correct while. When we were children we had made our own toys

2014年3月5日 · I had made these butterfly wings. -> This requires another sentence to follow it: something related to your having finished making the wings, e.g. "I had made these butterfly wings and then I lost them." or "I had made these butterfly wings and the door opened and I saw the ghost!" The past perfect is used for narration of past events.

2007年10月18日 · He has made twelve films : ie up to now. He had made twelve films by 1998/by the time he was 30 : the reference point 1998/when he was 30 ) is stated in the co-text. Hope that answers your question?

2019年11月14日 · My logical programmer brain made me write "had had made" in a sentence like John talked about a spare key that he had had made and which turned out not to work when he actually needed it. My language sense lodged a protest but could not pinpoint any actual fault, apart from suggesting the use of more human-digestible constructs like "a spare ...

2019年11月2日 · They are both correct, but in British English the present perfect is used more than in American English. The past simple focuses more on the past action and the present perfect focuses on the present result of the past action, which in this case didn't take place.

2015年2月8日 · I had ridden horses, but I was still afraid of them. I had baked a cake, and it was delicious. I suppose another way to envisage them is like this. Historic Past, Past, Present, Future. I have baked a cake (Past) and it is tasty (Present). Soon it will all be gone. (Future) I had baked a cake (Historic Past) and it was tasty (Past).

Notice how the verb changed in that last sentence! Because once a car is made by Benz, it will always be a Benz, no matter when it was made (although, in the U.S., we typically say Mercedes). We might change our sentence to the past tense after we no longer own the car: I had a car that was a Benz, but I sold it. Nowadays, I drive a Toyota.

2021年5月24日 · The two instances of “had had” play different grammatical roles in the sentences—the first is a modifier while the second is the main verb of the sentence. I don't understand the grammatical explanation given for this sentence. How does had had had had make sense and is grammatical? I understand that had had is correct, but not had had ...

2018年10月14日 · I had the TV on with the sound turned down. When the direct object is the person or thing doing something, the meanings are the same with make or have. I had him bake a cake - he made it I made him bake a cake - he made it. When the direct object is the thing that has something done to it, the meanings are different. I had a cake baked by him ...

2009年11月23日 · Had I made a study list (if I had made a list of what to study), I would have been more prepared/better prepared for the exam. Mi intento: Si yo hiciera una lista que estudiar, yo hubiera estar más preparada/preparada mejor para el examen. Gracias por su ayuda.