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I read this sentence in the Guardian today, and I couldn't figure out if it was an error or a regionalism. (I did, however, figure out that I don't know my grammar too well!)

"[the mid-18th century] court...had insisted that everyone kept a straight face."

[the mid-18th century] court...had insisted that everyone kept a straight face.

To my ear, keep seems better than kept, but is one more right than the other?

I read this sentence in the Guardian today, and I couldn't figure out if it was an error or a regionalism. (I did, however, figure out that I don't know my grammar too well!)

"[the mid-18th century] court...had insisted that everyone kept a straight face."

To my ear, keep seems better than kept, but is one more right than the other?

I read this sentence in the Guardian today, and I couldn't figure out if it was an error or a regionalism. (I did, however, figure out that I don't know my grammar too well!)

[the mid-18th century] court...had insisted that everyone kept a straight face.

To my ear, keep seems better than kept, but is one more right than the other?

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Odd British pluperfect subjunctive construction?

I read this sentence in the Guardian today, and I couldn't figure out if it was an error or a regionalism. (I did, however, figure out that I don't know my grammar too well!)

"[the mid-18th century] court...had insisted that everyone kept a straight face."

To my ear, keep seems better than kept, but is one more right than the other?