Are these phrases good?
I have to choose whether to use past perfect or past simple:
-I had been at the party for about 5 mins when a girl came to me and said "hello"
-She told me we had stayed in the same hotel the previous summer (I wrote "the previous summer cause I think that "last summer" wouldn't be appropriate here. Am I right?)
-She was sure we had met before. She asked me my phone number and I saw she had already written my name on it. Had I meet her before? Had I forgotten everything about it?
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Answers · 3
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For the second sentence, both are correct, but they mean slightly different things.
"She told me we had stayed in the same hotel the previous summer." "The previous summer" means the summer before she told you this. If the conversation happened recently, it could be last summer, but if the conversation happened in 2011, then "the previous summer" would mean the summer of 2010.
"She told me we had stayed in the same hotel last summer." "Last summer" always means the most recent summer before now. If you say "last summer" today, you are definitely talking about the summer of 2015.
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I agree with Sam's two corrections, but otherwise your use of "had" is perfect.
I'd only add that I don't think there's anything wrong with "She told me we had stayed in the same hotel last summer". (But, "she told me we had stayed in the same hotel *the* last summer" is wrong, because of the definite article "the").
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Well done, they're all correct! However, just two things I need to mention: She asked me FOR my phone number and had I MET her before.
Other than that, really good.
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