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Mizunashi Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

past or present using when

When the group started to be active
When the group starts to be active
When the group start to be active

which one of the three above is correct?

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Oh yeah, I forgot to write. There is "the time" on each of the sentence. "

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10 Answers
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Oh yeah, I forgot to write. There is "the time" on each of the sentence.
so, "the time when..."
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With or without 'the time', these are not complete sentences.
Please show us complete ones to comment on.

Clive
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In American Englsih, "group" is treated as a singular entity. With this approach, # 3 has problem with subjuect -verb agreement. # 2 and # 1 are possible with further context. This is an incomplete sentence because a "when -clause" suggests actions to follow. For example:
When she was doing dishes, she dropped a glass and cut her hand.
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MizunashiWhen the group started to be active
MizunashiWhen the group starts to be active
MizunashiWhen the group start to be active
Mizunashiwhich one of the three above is correct?
As sentence fragments, they're all correct.
Regarding the third o
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There is the time in front of it. I'm writing a user manual for form filling.

So there is a field named "Active time"
And I want to describe this. So?

The time when the group started to be active,
The time when the group starts to be active,
or the time when the group start to be active.

hehehe
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If the normal situation is that the group became active before the forms completion, I'd just write
Date the group became active.

Clive
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Clivebefore the forms completion
Is this correct?

Afraid my grammar is outdated again. I'd say, "before the form's completion." Is the possessive no longer required? - A.
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typo (I'm a lousy typist, and apparently a careless one.)
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No offense. You're usually "right on!"Emotion: yes
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A field definition need not be a complete sentence, so now that we have the context I think this might shift some responses.

That said, "active time" sounds like the entire duration of time the group is active, as opposed to "activation time" the point in time in which the group became active; which could also simply be "start time." You probably won't be renaming the field, but I'm just
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