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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.

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  • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.

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  • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.

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