I sent this to an interested party ...
Without an indication of timing, either stated or compelled by context, there can be no past perfect.
... and he wrote back, "This is indeed one of the subtlest rules of grammar I’ve ever encountered (and the first time I’ve every heard about it)."
ATEGians, what do you make of the exchange? Did I not point him in the right direction?
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