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Ravikumarkargam Posted 17 years ago
An hour ago Kelly guessed that a software was not installed in my laptop.
After an hour I have confirmed that particular software was not there on my laptop, and would like to update Kelly about the same through email.
In this context, I have used was in two places in below sentence. Please confirm whether it is correct or not.
Regards,
Ravi
Grammar
Is vs was
Hi,
Here is the situation I encountered.An hour ago Kelly guessed that a software was not installed in my laptop.
After an hour I have confirmed that particular software was not there on my laptop, and would like to update Kelly about the same through email.
In this context, I have used was in two places in below sentence. Please confirm whether it is correct or not.
- Kelly, Your guess was (or is?) correct, Software was (or is?) not installed on my laptop.
Regards,
Ravi
Top answer
" I wouldn't object to "your guess is" because it's still correct.
- " I wouldn't object to "your guess is" because it's still correct.
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I would use "your guess was" and "the software is."
I wouldn't object to "your guess is" because it's still correct.
I wouldn't object to "your guess is" because it's still correct.
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ravikumarkargamKelly, Your guess was (or is?) correct, Software was (or is?) not installed on my laptop.The guess was in the past, so the guess was correct.
The software was not installed in the past (Nobody installed it.), so it was not installed is fine, I would say.
But the software
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