Past Perfect - this sentence correct or wrong?
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Past Perfect - this sentence correct or wrong?
Why had she looked so angry, did anyone speak ill of her?
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Re: Past Perfect - this sentence correct or wrong?
Your sentence is not correct.
Perhaps you mean:
Why did she look so angry? Had anyone spoken ill of her?
The verb speak is in the past perfect and it precedes the action of looking angry.
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