So these are all... oh crap, I know the term in French. Plus parfait? They're all in the past-perfect tense? So, uh, the past BEFORE the past. Which is interesting. I suppose you could say "It looked like Dudley had got the television" but yeah, that sounds REALLY wrong to me. On the other hand, if you change "got" to "receive" (same meaning), you'd just use the simple past form with 'had' in front of it. "Dudley had received the television." 'Got' is a pretty irregular verb though. 'Gotten' SOUNDS better to me.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:09 pm (UTC)