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[klafterreith]

Tom (after a holiday) : I have just returned from Rome. I was fantastic.
I have bought/bought a ring.


Is the present perfect tenseor past tense appropriate?
Please comment.

[lotus]

Hi klafterreith,

Try:

Tom (after a holiday) : I have just returned from Rome. It was fantastic.
I bought a ring.

Because you have already established the past, you do not need a past perfect (I had bought a ring) to express something you had done already done.


--lotus
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