past perfect for past

Moore, John moorej at ucsd.edu
Tue Aug 10 19:36:58 UTC 2010


I heard someone claim that younger speakers of American English will use the past perfect ('I'd gone') instead of the simple past ('I went') in colloquial speech.  Has anyone heard of this, and if so, does anyone know of any literature n it?

thanks, John


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