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Build green 423 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Do I have to make this part of the sentence past tense?
It can accelerate as fast as a cheetah that has just seen a prey.
It could accelerate as fast as a cheetah that has/had just seen a prey.
Do I have to change the tense of the second part of the sentence?
Thanks in advance.
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It can accelerate as fast as a cheetah that has just seen its prey.
- It can accelerate as fast as a cheetah that has just seen its prey.
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It can accelerate as fast as a cheetah that has just seen its prey.
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build green 423Do I have to change the tense of the second part of the sentence?
I think you're asking about the sequence of tenses in the second sentence, which is supposed to be the past of the first sentence.
In a comparison such as you have (as fast as), what you say after that second as only has to make sense within itself. It does
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