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( I'd been employed ) at TRI Inc as an assistant engineer for 3 years before- entering the military.

in the brackets, Should I use past sense or past perfect sense?

I've been writing my English autobiography, which is very hard for me.

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Base language: English
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JesseC
Feb 14, 2013
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I think that you have written a very good sentence.

I would just make a few changes:

I had been at TRI, Inc., as an assistant engineer for three years before entering the military.

NOTES:

a. Probably it is a good idea NOT to use contractions in formal writing.
b. Some people think that you should spell out numbers that are smaller than ten.
c. There is no need for a hyphen after "before."

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James
Feb 14, 2013
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You would use the past tense. In this case, I would change "I had been employed" to "I was employed". In another answer they placed a comma between "Inc." and "as". This is not necessary for this sentence. If you use a comma there, you would also use another comma after "engineer".

1) I was employed at TRI, Inc. as an assistant engineer for three years...
2) I was employed at TRI, Inc., as an assistant engineer, for three years...

Both are correct, but the first uses "open punctuation" and the second uses "closed punctuation".

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