Brad Johnston wrote:
> He chimed in with, What's the past perfect?
>  
>
That sounds like your worst nightmare, Brad. I've been reading a 
biography of John Boyd, written by Robert Coram, a journalist for the 
Atlanta Journal Constitution. Coram religiously avoids the past perfect, 
joyously piling simple past upon simple past, and may the reader beware.

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