I am trying to teach my students the pluperfect tense.
“‘Have gone’ means the past, talked about now.” I say. “But ‘had gone’ means…”
“All in the past.” A dozen soft voices say. A dozen sets of dark doe eyes watch me dutifully. At this late hour, in night school, their eyes are still remarkably bright, after working all day. I’m only kept awake by the sme…
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