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Aicahcute Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

is this correct?!... -we had to stay in the exam room until the end of the exam-... and what tense is this?!...

is this correct?!... we had to stay in the exam room until the end of the exam... and what tense is this?!...
  

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If you start with a capital letter and end with a period/full stop, it is correct. Past.

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  • If you start with a capital letter and end with a period/full stop, it is correct.
  • Past.
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If you start with a capital letter and end with a period/full stop, it is correct.

Past.
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so it should be - We had to stayed in the exam room until the end of the exam. - is that correct?
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so it should be - We had to stayed in the exam room until the end of the exam. - is that correct? Yes.
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Yoong Liatso it should be - We had to stayed in the exam room until the end of the exam. - is that correct? Yes.
We had to stayed is ungrammatical. We had to stay is correct.

CB
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aicahcuteso it should be - We had to stayed in the exam room until the end of the exam. - is that correct?
NO. We had to stayed ...
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Thanks, CB.

Good catch. What a blunder on my part!
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fivejedjon aicahcuteso it should be - We had to stayed in the exam room until the end of the exam. - is that correct?NO. We had to stayed ...
Another blunder of mine. How could I be so careless!
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i don't know who's telling you guys the correct word.. but if i'm not mistaken "had" is always followed by past participle form of the verb... why did you say so that "we had to stay" is the correct?.... please explain it to me clearly... thank you in advance
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To have to do indicates compulsion and have is followed by the present infinitive, not a past participle. In your original post had is used as the sentence is in the past tense.

I have to go now. = I must go now.

CB
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aicahcutei don't know who's telling you guys the correct word.. but if i'm not mistaken "had" is always followed by past participle form of the verb... why did you say so that "we had to stay" is the correct?.... please explain it to me clearly... thank you in advance
The verb 'to' is followed by the base form of the verb.

We had to stay...
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