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Seoul Brother Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
About verb tense agreement
If you watched the movie Avatar, you must be surprised at the scene when Neytri and Jake were flying above the floating " Halleujah Mountains."
The tense of verb in the surbordinate clause is past but the tense of verb in the main is present.
Why don't we use the past like this?
you must have been surprised at the scene ~
thanks in advance
The tense of verb in the surbordinate clause is past but the tense of verb in the main is present.
Why don't we use the past like this?
you must have been surprised at the scene ~
thanks in advance
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I suppose the writer may have justified it on the basis that you are still surprised now, but the original sentence doesn't work properly for me. "you must have been surprised" is preferable.
- I suppose the writer may have justified it on the basis that you are still surprised now, but the original sentence doesn't work properly for me.
- "you must have been surprised" is preferable.
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I suppose the writer may have justified it on the basis that you are still surprised now, but the original sentence doesn't work properly for me. "you must have been surprised" is preferable.
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