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[Nicholas]

In one of your answers you put an explanation (below) in which you used the past perfect where I would expect to see the present perfect:

"If the sequence is that six months after he started looking forward to the fight, he hurt his leg, and then several months more passed, and now it is the day on which the fight was scheduled, and you are explaining to someone who had not heard about the hurt leg why there will be no fight, the version you give with the simple past would be appropriate.
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Pete"

Why did you use "had" but not "has"?

[Pete]

In one of your answers you put an explanation (below) in which you used the past perfect where I would expect to see the present perfect:

"If the sequence is that six months after he started looking forward to the fight, he hurt his leg, and then several months more passed, and now it is the day on which the fight was scheduled, and you are explaining to someone who had not heard about the hurt leg why there will be no fight, the version you give with the simple past would be appropriate.
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Pete"

Why did you use "had" but not "has"?Your observation is correct. Since I was using present tense to describe the hypothetical situation, it would have been more consistent for me to use the present perfect tense with the auxiliary has to speak of something that had (not) happened previously. I think my point of view shifted part way through the sentence, which led to the tense I used.

Not maintaining a consistent point of view in a single discourse is a common sources of errors in English. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

[Nicholas]

Thank YOU, because the fact that now I see such nuances is the result of your lessons.