195 时间从句中的一般过去时与过去完成时.docVIP

195 时间从句中的一般过去时与过去完成时 195 the simple past tense and the past perfect tense in the subordinate clause A clauses that are joined by when A past action followed by another action: He, called, her, a, liar. He cursed her for lying. She smacked his face. She gave him a slap in the face. When can be used to link these two sentences in the past tense. The condition of the connection is that it can be obvious from the meaning that the latter movement follows the previous action, and the two does not occur simultaneously: When, he, called, her, a, liar, she, smacked, face., his She gave him a slap in the face when he scolded her for telling a lie. In the use of the two past tense, there is usually the concept that the first act leads to second actions, the latter following the latter: When, he, opened, the, window, the, bird, flew, out. No sooner had he opened the window than the bird flew out. When, the, play, ended, the, audience, went, home. At the end of the play, the audience went home. When, he, died, he, was, given, a, state, funeral. After his death, he was given a state funeral. The past perfect tense was used after when to avoid the impression that two simple past tense may make two simultaneous actions: When, he, had, shut, the, window, we, opened, the, door,, of, the, cage. After he closed the window, we opened the door of the cage. We waited until he closed the window to open the cage door When, she, had, sung, her, song, she, sat, down. After she finished the song and sat down. (as written in When she sang her song she satdown, she may be sitting singing the impression) When, he, had, seen, all, the, pictures, he, said, he,, was, ready, to, leave. After looking at all the pictures, he said he was leaving. After he saw the picture Compare the trial to the next sentence: When, he, saw, all, the, he, expressed, amazement, pictures, that, one, manshould,, have, painted, so, many. When he saw all the pictures, he was surprised that a man should have painted so many