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When to use 了 and when to use 过 to express past actions or events
I kind of have an idea of when 了 and 过 should be used but it's mostly on a case by case basis, and I don't know the exact rules.
So if I want to express something that happened in the past, when ...
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What's the role of 曾经 in this sentence?
In this sentence:
他曾经在北京学过两年汉语。
what's the role of 曾经 ? I understand that 过 already implies that the action happened in the past.
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When should 了 be after the verb and when should it be at the end of the sentence?
In a sentence such as "因为我去面试了，所以我刮了胡子", in one case, 了 is after the sentence, while in the other case it's after the verb, even though in both cases, 了 is used to express the past tense.
So how to ...
