a. The police freed a man who robbed two banks.
Can't this sentence correspond to both
1. The police freed a man who then robbed two banks.
and to
2. The police freed a man who had robbed two banks.
?
Many thanks.
tenses
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Re: tenses
Conversationally, yes...