Past Simple vs Past Perfect. What would be the right tense in the following sentence?
a) Yesterday I talked to the guy I interviewed last week
b) Yesterday I talked to the guy I had interviewed last week
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Either is fine. Which one I would use would depend on the context. How does this sentence fit in the conversation? How long was the interview?
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Yesterday I talked to the guy I interviewed last week
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Past perfect sounds better in this context. The second sentence.
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Yesterday I talked to the guy I interviewed last week. I think that the second one is also correct, but more commonly used in novel writing? :)
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Yesterday I spoke to the guy I had interviewed last week, although both are common.
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