Timeline for "He didn't know where New Jersey was"
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| Jul 26, 2023 at 11:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ... While if the present tense is [correctly] used, the circumstances must still be continuing (at the time the statement is made. Even towns are sometimes relocated.) // But not the whole story. Although 'He didn't know where New Jersey was' and 'He didn't know where New Jersey is' are both acceptable and nigh on identical in meaning, while 'He didn't know where his brother was' and 'He didn't know where his brother is' are both available with possibly different meanings, 'I thought the name of this colour [pointing] is vermilion' sounds unnatural to my ears. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 12:01 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |