Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 30.08.2016 16:02   
      
    ak>>  Although we probably can say "The Titanic sunk quickly."   
      
    ml>>  yes, that's quite valid, too...   
      
      
    AH>             Except that where I come from we say "sink, sank, sunk".  YMMV   
      
    "The Titanic had sunk quickly." The Titanic of course did nor sank many times.   
      
   I hurried and I missed "had". Although I had nowhere to hurry. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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