Michaelll
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I was doing exercises in Advanced Grammar in Use, by Martin Hewings, and I got pretty surprised by the keys to exercise 5.2.
For example, he said that in 2 and 7 both the past perfect and the past simple are possible (where I thought the past simple is much, much better), but at the same time he said that, for example, in 5, 6 and 8 only the past perfect is possible (where I thought the past simple was also OK).
![5.2 (2,3,7,9,11 both are possible - others only the past perfect).png 5.2 (2,3,7,9,11 both are possible - others only the past perfect).png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/4/4371-060bd29e899dfdeae0d6e45da1527395.jpg)
Can you please explain to me how it is that in 7 “The teacher guessed that some of the children had cheated / cheated in the exam” both are possible while in 8 “She said that she had made up /made up her mind who to vote for, and that I couldn’t persuade her to change” only the past perfect is possible?
(There's no context to any of those sentences)
For example, he said that in 2 and 7 both the past perfect and the past simple are possible (where I thought the past simple is much, much better), but at the same time he said that, for example, in 5, 6 and 8 only the past perfect is possible (where I thought the past simple was also OK).
![5.2 (2,3,7,9,11 both are possible - others only the past perfect).png 5.2 (2,3,7,9,11 both are possible - others only the past perfect).png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/4/4371-060bd29e899dfdeae0d6e45da1527395.jpg)
Can you please explain to me how it is that in 7 “The teacher guessed that some of the children had cheated / cheated in the exam” both are possible while in 8 “She said that she had made up /
(There's no context to any of those sentences)