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In a world where people want a minimum of words, why on earth would anyone use
Past Perfect Simple Tense: The families have been using...
Instead of
Past Simple Tense: The families used...
Throughout an entire article.
To me this adds useless verbage. But the person writing this is an experienced "reporter" and I don't want to argue unless there is a reason. I just know I lose patience with so much verbage, even in the newspaper... what about others?
Deborah
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