各位好，請教一下
在朗文辭典看這樣的例句：https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/back
She was the one who had fired him from his first job back in South Africa.
為何這句子後面要用過去完成式had fired呢？應該也可以只用過去式吧？如：
She was the one who fired him from his first job back in South Africa
過去式就可以表達了，想不出要用過去完成式的理由。後來我試著想像一個語境：
(She told me that) She was the one who had fired him from his first job back
in South Africa.
這樣對我來說，用過去完成式就合理了。
「她告訴我」發生在過去，而「她在他第一份工作時開除他」發生在「她告訴我」之前，
也就是「過去的過去」，因此用過去完成式。
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a. She was the one who had fired him from his first job back in South Africa.
b. She was the one who fired him from his first job back in South Africa.
1. Are both (a) and (b) grammatically correct?
2. Is my imagining a context for (a) acceptable?
網友Piscean:
1. Both are possible.
2. It's OK, but the original (a) is fine as it is.
She was (past time) the one who had fired him (earlier past time) from his
first job.
網友Raymott:
There's plenty of information in the sentence that seems to make the past
perfect unnecessary. The past perfect is used to indicate the relative timing
of events, not all of which occur in the same sentence. The sentence alone
doesn't need it. In a wider context, it might.
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※ 編輯: scju (111.251.47.242), 09/08/2018 09:40:18