MGMAT 08 - CH07 Verb Tense

[mail2harvinder]

Q - The local government has built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.

"Has built" is corrent form of the verb but as per guide this should be either "had build" or "built". Can someone please help to understand the logic giving some different perspective than given in the guide

[jlucero]

Q - The local government has built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.

"Has built" is corrent form of the verb but as per guide this should be either "had build" or "built". Can someone please help to understand the logic giving some different perspective than given in the guide

The local government had built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake. (prior to it being destroyed- or you could remove the had here and mean a similar thing, although had provides extra detail)

The local government has built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake. (since it was destroyed)

[dharan]

Q - The local government has built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.

"Has built" is corrent form of the verb but as per guide this should be either "had build" or "built". Can someone please help to understand the logic giving some different perspective than given in the guide

The local government had built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake. (prior to it being destroyed- or you could remove the had here and mean a similar thing, although had provides extra detail)

The local government has built the school that was destroyed by the earthquake. (since it was destroyed)

Though this question is old, my take is here :

Here is my analysis :
1. The local government had built the school [ before the earthquake destroyed it ].
The intention of the author is clear that the school is built before the earthquake destroyed it.

2. The local government has built the school [ after the earthquake destroyed it ].
This statement doesn't make sense. Because, here author's intention is not rebuilding the destroyed school.
If the intention of the author is rebuild then the statement would have been something like this.
"The local government has rebuilt the school"

since the actual verb is built [not rebuilt], analysis 1 clears the confusion. This confusion happens mostly to non-native English speaker, if the statement exactly converted to native language.

[RonPurewal]

i'm sorry, but i can't tell what you are asking.

(this is your first post on the forum... obviously you wouldn't create a new account just to write a random comment on a three-year-old discussion, so you must be asking something. but i can't tell what that is.)

[RonPurewal]

in any case, this post is in the wrong place-- there's a separate folder for problems from MPrep materials. so this thread is now locked.

please re-post your question in the correct folder (and, this time, please clarify exactly what your question is).

thank you.