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Two actions are mentioned in the sentence: Listening and leaving. Listening occurred before leaving, though the two actions happened one after the other.
If we do without the participle as modifier, the sentence could be rewritten as follows,
After we had listened to the committee argue for hours, we finally left.
OR
After we listened to the committee argue for hours, we finally left.
In either case, simple past tense for "we finally left"
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Two actions are mentioned in the sentence: Listening and leaving. Listening occurred before leaving, though the two actions happened one after the other.
If we do without the participle as modifier, the sentence could be rewritten as follows,
After we had listened to the committee argue for hours, we finally left.
OR
After we listened to the committee argue for hours, we finally left.
In either case, simple past tense for "we finally left"
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