Grammar Rules, by Mary S. Schatz, c.2002 by Garlic Press.
 
page 171 - Skill Check - Choose the best sentence in each group.
 
Her pick. Wrapped in an old shawl, the elderly man carried a smelly fish he (had) caught in the river.
 
page 172 - Skill Check - Choose the correct word.
 
I washed my hair after I (finished/had finished) my homework.
 
Her pick. I washed my hair after I (had) finished my homework.
 
page 172 - Correct the errors.
 
There was a dead whale that had washed up on the beach that caused a nuisance in a small Oregon town.
 
Her correction: A dead whale that (had) washed up on the beach caused  a nuisance in a small Oregon town.
 
'caught', 'finished', and 'washed' are all past tense verbs, as those words are used in the above sentences. The word 'had' does not belong in front of past tense verbs.
 
This is Exhibit #90+ to my assertion that there is at least one past perfect error on any grammar website or in any grammar text you can name.
 
.brad.28nov08.
 
P.S. Under Misplaced Modifiers she lists, "We need someone to care for Bessie, our cow, who does not smoke or drink".  Isn't that epic?


    
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