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Can this sentence be in past tense?

Hi there, can this sentence be in past tense with "ed" on it? Is the sentence also correct? thanks

I do not know if the guy driving the car was drunk or not, but he crashes/ed into a group of people on motorcycles and they go flying.
  

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Hi, can this sentence be in past tense with "ed" on it? Is the sentence also correct? thanks I do not know if the guy driving the car was drunk or not, but he crashes/ed into a group of people on motorcycles and they go flying.

— Clive

  • Hi, can this sentence be in past tense with "ed" on it?
  • Is the sentence also correct?
  • thanks I do not know if the guy driving the car was drunk or not, but he crashes/ed into a group of people on motorcycles and they go flying.
  • It needs to be in past tense ( 'crashed', 'went flying' ) because you are talking about past events.
  • There are special contexts in which it's OK to tell a story in present tense, but this does not seem to be one of those contexts.
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Hi,
can this sentence be in past tense with "ed" on it? Is the sentence also correct? thanks

I do not know if the guy driving the car was drunk or not, but he crashes/ed into a group of people on motorcycles and they go flying.

It needs to be in past tense ('crashed', 'went flying') because you are talking about past events.

There are special contexts
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