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Yuseon Jeong Posted 10 years ago
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Have you visited many museums when you (are,were) in Paris?

I think are is correct. If my answer is incorrect, please explain .
  

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Yuseon Jeong Have you visited many museums in Paris? when you (are,were) in Paris? You cannot use a time reference in the same sentence with the present perfect tense, so the when -clause has to go.

  • Yuseon Jeong Have you visited many museums in Paris?
  • when you (are,were) in Paris?
  • You cannot use a time reference in the same sentence with the present perfect tense, so the when -clause has to go.
  • ), you must use the past tense.
  • Did you visit many museums when you were in Paris?
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Yuseon JeongHave you visited many museums in Paris? when you (are,were) in Paris?
You cannot use a time reference in the same sentence with the present perfect tense, so the when-clause has to go.

If you wish to include a time reference (yesterday, last month, before the war, when you were in Paris, ...), you must use

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