shootingstar
Member
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2022
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
I've learned from the annexed thread that I feel as if I had opened a can of worms is wrong. I don't know the reason, though. Please tell me why it is grammatically incorrect to write had. In my opinion both versions are possible.
Thank you.
Thank you.
. . . that I was never again to be committed in ignorance
. . . Well, I was in for it - in for Pinkerton, in for the portrait, in for the type-written lecture. One promise I extorted - that I was never again to be committed in ignorance. Even for that, when I saw how its extortion puzzled and depressed the Irrepressible (the nickname of Pinkerton), my...
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