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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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After "to" always present tense, could it be past tense?

for example, I feel very sorry to wrote the wrong name for the doctor I complained.


Is the sentence structure correct?

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anonymous After "to" always present tense, could it be past tense? No, it cannot be past tense. And by the way, 'to' marks the verb as an infinitive.

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  • anonymous After "to" always present tense, could it be past tense?
  • No, it cannot be past tense.
  • And by the way, 'to' marks the verb as an infinitive.
  • We never say that the infinitive is the present tense.
  • We call it an infinitive even though it looks like one of the two present tense forms.
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anonymous After "to" always present tense, could it be past tense?

No, it cannot be past tense.

And by the way, 'to' marks the verb as an infinitive. We never say that the infinitive is the present tense. We call it an infinitive even though it looks like one of the two present tense forms.

Infinitive: to take
Present: take, take

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