TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldimagemessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down138
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·10 months agoIt’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
minus-squareTheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoWell the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·10 months agoNo, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoi.e. at all before that time
minus-squareschmidtster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoFor someone who only posts insulting others and correcting (incorrectly a bunch too….) their grammar, you sure lack any amount of reading comprehension.
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoIn the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·10 months agoHe stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
minus-squaresaigot@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoNo native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoNo native English speaker would say it like you said.
It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
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
No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.
i.e. at all before that time
No, they never said “before.”
For someone who only posts insulting others and correcting (incorrectly a bunch too….) their grammar, you sure lack any amount of reading comprehension.
In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.
He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.
No native English speaker would say it like that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”.
No native English speaker would say it like you said.