Sequence of Tenses

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About this concept

Advanced tense relationships: tense shifts in reported speech, narrative perspective changes, and temporal anchoring in complex sentences.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~40 cards at level C1.

Han sa at han ville komme når han hadde spist.He said he would come when he had eaten.

Hvis hun hadde visst at han hadde kommet...If she had known that he had come...

De trodde at vi allerede hadde gått.They thought we had already left.

Jeg visste ikke at du hadde bodd her.I didn't know you had lived here.

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