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Changing Tenses

0 Recently I saw an ad of a multinationl company "Telenor". There was a sentenec that they repeat two or theree times in that 30 sec ad.02br
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00 "It's time you 01b00moved02b00 to the best".02br
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00Is it gramatically correct to jump from simple present to simple past? If so, then what difference does it make to keep the sentence in the simple present. "It's time you move to the best".02br
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0 It is correct. 02br 02br 01i 00It's time02i 00can take the past tense with present meaning. 05002br 02br 00 CJ010id3

— CalifJim

  • 0 It is correct.
  • 02br 02br 01i 00It's time02i 00can take the past tense with present meaning.
  • 05002br 02br 00 CJ010id3
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0 It is correct. The words 01i00It's time02i00 are a bit special in English.02br
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0 Can you please put some extra light on this issue. I don't get it. Is "it's time" a simple past in its special meaning? What other such expressions exist and what does they are called? Also, what is the actaul meaining of "It's time you moved to the best"? Is this sentense as a whole be treated as a simple past? 02br
00What is the difference in meaning in thissentence and it's simp
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite10Recently I saw an ad of a multinationl company "Telenor". There was a sentenec that they repeat two or theree times in that 30 sec ad.12br
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00Is "it's time" a simple past in its special meaning?12blockquote
10 No. It's simple present. The verb that follows (01i00moved02i00) is present in meaning even though it is past in form.02br
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00... meaining of "It's time you moved to the best"? Is this senten[ c ]e as a whole
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite10Recently I saw an ad of a multinationl company "Telenor". There was a sentenec that they repeat two or theree times in that 30 sec ad.12br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10 10 I don't know of any special name for the expressions 11i10It's time12i10 and 11i10wish12i10. 12br
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10Well I did some work on the internet and got some useful links. You said that you don't know any
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0 Yes. You can call what 01u00follows02u00 01i00It's time02i00 an unreal past or a past subjunctive. (But that's not what 01i00It's time02i00 is called. I don't know if 01u00that02u00 has a name -- unless you call it "an expression that triggers the use of the unreal past"!)02br
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0 Thanks CJ.02br
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