Past perfect/simple
She (painted/had painted) the wall before the children (came/had come) home.
My variant is
She had painted the wall before the children came home.
Is it correct?
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Answers · 1
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Yes. It's correct. You can also say, "She painted the wall before the children came home." This is less correct grammatically, but it is not necessarily wrong, either. Just as a reminder, the had+past participle is to say that one action occurred before another past action. That is why "She had painted" is better, because she did/had done it before the children came home.
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