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JesseC
Is this sentence correct? ( I'd been employed ) at TRI Inc as an assistant engineer for 3 years before- entering the military. in the brackets, Should I use past sense or past perfect sense? I've been writing my English autobiography, which is very hard for me.

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I think that you have written a very good sentence. I would just make a few changes: I had been at TRI, Inc., as an assistant engineer for three years before entering the military. NOTES: a. Probably it is a good idea NOT to use contractions in formal writing. b. Some people think that you should spell out numbers that are smaller than ten. c. There is no need for a hyphen after "before."
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You would use the past tense. In this case, I would change "I had been employed" to "I was employed". In another answer they placed a comma between "Inc." and "as". This is not necessary for this sentence. If you use a comma there, you would also use another comma after "engineer". 1) I was employed at TRI, Inc. as an assistant engineer for three years... 2) I was employed at TRI, Inc., as an assistant engineer, for three years... Both are correct, but the first uses "open punctuation" and the second uses "closed punctuation".
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