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Roman123 Posted 16 years ago
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How to change this sentence in past time ?

The internet layer is responsible for determining the best route that data packets should follow to reach their destination.
  

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Roman123 The internet layer is responsible for determining the best route that data packets should follow to reach their destination. " The other verbs are non-finite. " I suppose it's present, but the only way you could change it would be to say, "the route that packets should have followed," but this implies that they failed to do so.

— Avangi

  • Roman123 The internet layer is responsible for determining the best route that data packets should follow to reach their destination.
  • " The other verbs are non-finite.
  • " I suppose it's present, but the only way you could change it would be to say, "the route that packets should have followed," but this implies that they failed to do so.
  • " It goofed up!
  • )) Otherwise, just change the one verb.
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Roman123The internet layer is responsible for determining the best route that data packets should follow to reach their destination.
Really, all you have to do is to change that one "is" to "was." The other verbs are non-finite.
(Well, I'm not exactly sure what tense you'd call "should follow." I suppose it's present, but the only way you could change i
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Avangi , where u from?
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Roman123Avangi , where u from?
I've spent my whole life in the continental US.
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