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Pchuang Posted 20 years ago
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is there anything wrong with this sentence in terms of tense
it has been ten years now since the German scientists started their researches into those reeds and a breakthrough finally came 18 months ago, which saw the reeds being made into a building material.
it is possible to have different tense put into one sentence only seperated by "and"?
it is possible to have different tense put into one sentence only seperated by "and"?
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Hi, it has been ten years now since the German scientists started their researches into those reeds , and a breakthrough finally came 18 months ago which saw the reeds being made into a building material. This seems acceptable. I'd adjust the commas, as shown.
- Hi, it has been ten years now since the German scientists started their researches into those reeds , and a breakthrough finally came 18 months ago which saw the reeds being made into a building material.
- This seems acceptable.
- I'd adjust the commas, as shown.
- it is possible to have different tense put into one sentence only seperated by "and"?
- Sure, why not?
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Hi,
it has been ten years now since the German scientists started their researches into those reeds, and a breakthrough finally came 18 months ago which saw the reeds being made into a building material.
This seems acceptable. I'd adjust the commas, as shown.
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it has been ten years now since the German scientists started their researches into those reeds, and a breakthrough finally came 18 months ago which saw the reeds being made into a building material.
This seems acceptable. I'd adjust the commas, as shown.
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