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"had already explained" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to indicate that an action was completed before another past action or event took place. Example: I had already explained the instructions to my students before they started working on their projects.
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The prime minister's spokesman said George Osborne, the chancellor, had already explained the macroprudential regulatory regime that would address this.
He had already explained, in "Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973" (1987), the second published volume of his journals, that "poetry can unleash a terrible fear.
Hnatyuk had already explained that the company didn't offer dedicated high-speed lines, and getting Dnipro Telecom to sanction even plain-vanilla telephone lines wouldn't be easy.
Unlike the average safety briefing, he had already explained how to place the oxygen mask "over that big old mouth and nose of yours", and he was now explaining how to breathe something like normally.
I had already explained to my daughter with some pride that it was a painting I'd made when I was just 3. "You did not," my mother said the other day.
The Minister of Justice had already explained, in a taped statement read over the radio, that the magistrates of the Public Ministry were not obliged to consult anyone, and each had acted within the law and "according to his conscience".
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