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Between THESE THREE options, which one is right?
“Today I ate more than I have eaten in my whole life” or “Today I ate more than I ate/did in my whole life”? Or “Today I ate more than I had eaten in my whole life”?
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Today I ate more than I have eaten in my whole life
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2 works in American English, and would be preferred there.
1 and 3 both work in British English and would be preferred here. 2 and 3 have slightly different meanings: 2 considers the day's eating in its entirety, whereas 3 focuses on an eating event clearly in the past (albeit today), perhaps a lunch that we are discussing.
Note that 'whole life' implies 'whole life before the big meal', none of the forms implies that the eater's life ended at that time.
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“Today I ate more than I had eaten in my whole life”?
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