![]() The use of y avoir as an event is possible but very uncommon. The imperfect form introduces contexts while the simple form introduces additional “events”/“records” in the narration. il y avait eu (context, already happened)Ĭhoosing between the first two or the last two depends on whether what you want to express already happened at the current (past) narration point, or if it's happening/relevant at that point.Ĭhoosing between the imperfect (avait), or the simple (eut) form depends on the role of this proposition or sentence in the narration.I will now assume that we are dealing with a past timeline and literary French offers you in this case 4 different indicative past forms: ![]() ![]() Compound past tenses are only used to indicate that something already happened at the current point in a timeline (which could be present or past). If you really have a story in a story, in a different timeline, this is not a reason to suddenly switch to a different past tense. One first possible source of misunderstanding could be interpretation of "two different points in time" (what you call t 0 and t -1).
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