Monday, January 14, 2019

grammar - yet with past simple


What is the meaning of this sentence


"we did not know about national skinheads; they did not exist yet"


Why is it not : " We did not know about national skinheads; they had not existed yet "(it was going to happen pretty soon)


the first sentence does not mean that it was going to happen, I think the second would better




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