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Mountain Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Help with past tense

0 "Yahoo only allow 20MB per message so I couldn't send you the whole file, but I don't know why it didn't let me when I was uploading only 14MB."02br
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00Hmm... This isn't the sentence I had problem with but it's something similar but my question is, can you use two past tense like this ".....tried and worked....?0-
  

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0The idiomatic '01i 00try and do02i 00' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. 02br 02br 02i 00 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 0The idiomatic '01i 00try and do02i 00' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form.
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0The idiomatic '01i00try and do02i00' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. Any inflection of the verb (01i00tries and, tried and02i00) illegitimatizes it.02br
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01i00I'll try and help you later.02br
00She's going to try and bake a cake.02i02br
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01cite10Mister Micawber12cite10The idiomatic '11i10try and do12i10' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. Any inflection of the verb (11i10tries and, tried and12i10) illegitimatizes it.12br
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11i10I'll try and help you later.12br
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0 01i00I tried to help you yesterday.02i0-
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01cite10NewPhilologist12cite11i10I tried to help you yesterday.12i12br
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10Thanks, I don't know why I didn't come up with that. One more question, can it be said "I have tried to worked (I think it's "work") it out earlier today."?0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00can it be said "I have tried to worked (I think it's "work") it out earlier today."?02font02br
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00Say "I tried to work it out earlier today."02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0 I was talking to a friend and not sure if I used the correct past tense.02br
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00"00it was on sunday and it rained all day so i had to use flash."02br
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0Hi,02br
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01font00"02font01font01b00I02b02font01font00t was on sunday and it rained all day so 01font01b00I 02b02font00had to use flash."02font02br
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01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
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11font10"12font11font11b10I12b12font11font10t was on sunday and it rained all day so 11font11b10I 12b12font
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