Using past perfect
Hi!
I have been in Puerto Vallarta, México the last year, i have gone with my friends and we have stayed for 4 days. The first day we have swum in the sea and pool before, we have danced a lot until get drunk jaja, at the night we have gone to walk for pier and we have taken a lot pictures. The next day we have gotten up early to visit others beaches, i have already known some places of Puerto Vallarta but i have never know a beautiful beach with white sand what only it have gone for boat ! i´d like to repeat the trip!
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Using past perfect
Hi!I went to have been in Puerto Vallarta, México the last year. I went, i have gone with my friends and we have stayed for 4 days. The first day we swam have swum in the sea and pool. before, We have danced a lot until we got get drunk, ha ha. jaja, At the night we went have gone to walk on the for pier and we took have taken a lot of pictures. The next day we got have gotten up early to visit others beaches. I, i had have already seen or visited known some places in of Puerto Vallarta but i had have never seen such know a beautiful beach with white sand that you can only get to by boat. what only it have gone for boat ! I´d like to go again! [repeat the trip! - isn't very natural]
Hi Cinthia,
What a great vacation! I live in Puerto Vallarta and love it. :)
About past perfect... What you've used here is actually present perfect: "I have stayed" "we have swum" etc. Past perfect uses "had" to talk about one event that happened before another event, e.g., "We had already tested the chocolate tequilla when they gave us the coconut sample." Or in your paragraph, you had already seen some places before this trip.
But to use present perfect, as you've tried to do here, it has to be for a repeated event or an event that is continuing to the present. Since this event is completely in the past, and not something you do regulary, you have to use simple past. So you can see that I've changed the tense to simple past.
I hope this helps! And I'm glad you enjoyed Vallarta!
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Wow, wonderful place.
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