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DD shows us that there is also a matter of taste involve in these choices. And his taste is better than mine.
Herb
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of DD Farms
Sent: Sun 2/17/2008 2:04 PM
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Subject: Re: Context matters - continued
At 08:01 AM 2/17/2008, Brad Johnston wrote:
>In context, do the five 'had's belong in or out?
> "Beyond containment, the major thrust of American Cold War
> diplomatic foreign policy was to return the defeated enemies,
> Germany and Japan, to the emerging international system as
> full-fledged members. This task, unprecedented in respect to
> nations on which unconditional surrender (had been) was imposed
> less than five years earlier, made sense to a generation of
> American leaders whose formative experience (had been) was
> overcoming the Great Depression of the 1930s. The generation that
> organized resistance to the Soviet Union (had) experienced Franklin
> D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which (had) restored political stability
> by closing the gap between American expectations and economic
> reality. The same generation (had) prevailed in World War II,
> fought in the name of democracy."
DD: Sounds better with all the "hads." Sequence of tense sort of stuff?
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