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*laughs*

One of my teachers wants to make a regular debate over the use of "had" in the perfect construction versus the simple past. I gave him an email from my linguistics professor. I even told hin that we're both correct, and yet he continues to argue and push the issue and then tell me that my English is bad and I learned it in a strange way.

-_-

I ... argh!!! He is correct, I am correct and it's making me laugh and be frustrated at the same time.

He's picked up a copy of Time magazine to show me his "correct" had usage, which I quickly pointed out how it could be used in my way as well. His major thing is that if you have two events, that if you do not use the "had" it changes the meaning of the sentences. One example I was rather pleased to point out how his usage completely changed the time order and he contested, went to a meeting and then we shall resume the debate when he gets back from it.

Anyone want to help me with this? He wants to send an email to my linguistics professor to contest the point further. *laughs*

I'm the native English speaker here and with a degree in Technical Writing. I think I should know how my own language is spoken. ^^;