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Hi.
I extracted the paragraphs below from a local newspaper article.
#1 - "Australia had enjoyed early success in crushing the curve of virus cases by shutting its international
border as well as implementing social distancing measures and a wide-spread testing and tracing regime."
#2 - "He had pleaded guilty in March this year to two counts each of molestation and insulting a woman's modesty"
#1 - I do not understand the use of the past perfect tense here as I do not see an "earlier past" in this sentence
and therefore the need to distinguish the order of events.
#2 - I always understand that when specific time is given, the correct tense should always be simple past. In this sentence, "March" was mentioned so
should it not be He "pleaded" guilty instead?
I extracted the paragraphs below from a local newspaper article.
#1 - "Australia had enjoyed early success in crushing the curve of virus cases by shutting its international
border as well as implementing social distancing measures and a wide-spread testing and tracing regime."
#2 - "He had pleaded guilty in March this year to two counts each of molestation and insulting a woman's modesty"
#1 - I do not understand the use of the past perfect tense here as I do not see an "earlier past" in this sentence
and therefore the need to distinguish the order of events.
#2 - I always understand that when specific time is given, the correct tense should always be simple past. In this sentence, "March" was mentioned so
should it not be He "pleaded" guilty instead?