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Tense after 'before'
Could you tell me why the tense of the verb after 'before' here is in past, while "I'm" is present?
I never ast for no fill. I never ast to come at all. I'm here before I knew this here was here.
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“Has received” in past tense sentence? [duplicate]
"It occurred to me that no Korean has ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature." In this sentence, is "has received" right, rather than "had received"? Is it because "that" indicates continuation ...
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“I didn't know that Mary was an adult education student” — does this imply she no longer is one? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
He didn’t know where New Jersey was
“They knew what mercy is” vs. “they knew what mercy was”
Should we use past tense in "Lugo admitted he is the father"?
Present or ...
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Questions in indirect speech and verb tense change
Today I had another English lesson and all students were instructed by teacher to ask each other few predefined questions and then to report them. I got the following questions:
"What kind of ...
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Correct use of tense
Can you please confirm which of the following three is correct?
I shared some ideas with Jon, which he agrees is a good solution for the problem we are facing.
I shared some ideas with Jon, ...
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“I was wondering what time it is” or “I was wondering what the time has been”
Can you tell me which option is more natural in this English sentence?
I'm sorry to trouble you but I was wondering what
(A) time it is
(B) the time has been
The whole story is that ...
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“Will have” vs. “Would have”
By the end of the year, I would have attended this school for five years.
Of course, the "most" correct way of writing this would be:
By the end of the year, I will have attended this school ...
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“Yes, I thought it was very good.” Why “thought”?
Here is a sentence from "Essential Grammar in Use" book by Raymond Murphy:
Did you enjoy the film ? Yes, I thought
it was very good.
The correct answer in key section is "thought", but why not ...
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Should we use past tense in “Lugo admitted he is the father”?
In this sentence, should the is be a was?
On April 13, 2009, Lugo admitted he is the father of a child conceived with Viviana Carrillo.
