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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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His chute fail to deploy. Do you add "s" at the end of fail
HI there, is my sentence correct? Do you add "s" to the end of "fail" do you also add "ed" to "deploy" "His" is not third person singular.
His chute fail to deploy.
His chute fail to deploy.
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Anonymous HI there, is my sentence correct? Do you add "s" to the end of "fail" do you also add "ed" to "deploy" "His" is not third person singular. His chute fail to deploy.
- Anonymous HI there, is my sentence correct?
- Do you add "s" to the end of "fail" do you also add "ed" to "deploy" "His" is not third person singular.
- His chute fail to deploy.
- "chute" = "it" = fails OR His chute failed to deploy No - "to deploy" is infinitive and will not change.
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AnonymousHI there, is my sentence correct? Do you add "s" to the end of "fail" do you also add "ed" to "deploy" "His" is not third person singular."chute" = "it" = fails
His chute fail to deploy.
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His chute failed to deploy
No - "to deploy" is infinitive and will not change.
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The problem with the present tense (it fails) is that it is used for habitual or repeated actionI
It would seem to me that for any one person, a chute could fail to deploy only once. So the past tense makes more sense, without other context.
It would seem to me that for any one person, a chute could fail to deploy only once. So the past tense makes more sense, without other context.
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Unless, of course, you are writing a piece of narrative in the present tense?
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