2007-01-20 06:34:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The pluperfect or past perfect tense is used to refer to something that happened before another thing that is referred to in the past tense.
e.g.:
"The closing down of the factory was announced after the management had had a meeting with the minister."
2007-01-20 16:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As people have said it puts the sentence into the correct tense, but it is very bad english to have what is refered to as a writer's stutter, (repeating the same word, one after the other.)
Looking carefully at it should come up with a much better way of saying it, and eliminating the stutter.
2007-01-20 23:00:42 · answer #2 · answered by i_am_jean_s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one is Americanised English and would not be considered "far enough" into the past tense for the statement. The use of "had had", means "they did have one" - further back in the past, as oposed to "they had one" (yesterday).
2007-01-20 06:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by kpk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second HAD puts the subject in the past perfect tense.
2007-01-20 06:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋