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Is this sentence right or wrong?
' I hadn't seen her for over a month and have been looking forward to it'.
Is it possible to use the past perfect and present perfect tense in the same sentence? Explanation would be fantastic. Thanks a lot.
4 Answers
- Gretchen SLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The past perfect is better used like this: I hadn't seen her for over a month and was looking forward to it. In this case, both the actions are in the past. You were looking forward to it and you had not seen her.
NOTE: The past perfect expresses an action in the past before another action in the simple past.
If you have not seen her in over a month as of now, say, "I have not seen her for over a month and have been looking forward to it." This one is also possible: "I have not seen her for over a month and am looking forward to it."
- 1 decade ago
No! No! Bad tree! Try this..."I hadn't seen her in more than a month, and had been looking forward to it." You already started the sentence off in the past tense, so you have to stick with past tense to be correct.
- 1 decade ago
Try "I hadn't seen her for over a month, so I've been looking forward to it."
"It" at the end might be an unclear pronoun though, so you might need to repeat youself and saying something like, "I've been looking forward to seeing her because I hadn't seen her for over a month." I think if you did that though, saying "I've been looking forward to seeing her because I HAVEN'T seen her for over a month." would sound better.
