Consider this sentence:
He had felt this pain earlier, when he drew the bow.
My intuition would be that the sentence is incorrect, and that the correct form is:
He had felt this pain earlier, when he had drawn the bow.
That being said, I remember from school that the future form would be something like He will feel this pain later, when he draws the bow.
, which goes against my intuition already... so I'm not sure what to think.
Which form is correct? (Is it maybe both? If so, is there a distinction?)
Is there some sort of rationale behind it, encompassing both the past and future cases?
Edit: To clarify, my question is about the rationale behind the future case He will feel this pain later, when he draws the bow.
, and how that rationale applies to other tenses like when the past perfect is involved
Edit 2: I understand that the past form of He feels this pain when he draws the bow.
is He felt this pain when he drew the bow.
What I don't understand is why adding anteriority wouldn't result in He had felt this pain when he had drawn the bow.
, and for that matter why the future form isn't He will feel this pain when he will draw the bow.
. What are the rules here?
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