To establish the difference between the use of ‘has/have’ and that of ‘had’, one needs to understand the essence of the past perfect tense. When two things occurred in the past, the past perfect tense ...

We were sitting in the blind that Wanderobo hunters had built of twigs and branches at the edge of the salt-lick when we heard the truck coming. (Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway) Hemingway did ...

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