1 - By the time I ate dinner I have already read the newspaper.
2 - By the time I ate dinner I have had already read the newspaper.
What's the correct sentence and why?
What's the correct?
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Re: What's the correct?
Neither!
-->By the time I ate dinner I HAD already read the newspaper.
-->By the time I ate dinner I HAD already read the newspaper.