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name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 months agoI’d : contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.
"I did something I had never done (before / in the past).
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Before” is not implied.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nope.
0xD@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Looks like everyone but you understood it correctly - maybe you should brush up on your language comprehension skills?
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 months ago
Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 months ago
In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.