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Believer Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
past perfect with inanimate subject
Hi,
I think it is a widely spread practice to use a past perfect with a subject that isn't a human or living thing, but despite my awareness of it, it still gives me an uneasy feeling whenever I try to use in sentences. Do you have some tips?
The high unemployment rate has done/brought some palpable damage to people's psyche.
Who/what has done it? Usually I feel it is a living being or thing who has done anything and to attribute the identity of a 'doer' to something other than a living being or thing is what bothers me as I try to form a nice sentence.
I think it is a widely spread practice to use a past perfect with a subject that isn't a human or living thing, but despite my awareness of it, it still gives me an uneasy feeling whenever I try to use in sentences. Do you have some tips?
The high unemployment rate has done/brought some palpable damage to people's psyche.
Who/what has done it? Usually I feel it is a living being or thing who has done anything and to attribute the identity of a 'doer' to something other than a living being or thing is what bothers me as I try to form a nice sentence.
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That sentence sounds okay to me, as well as I don't see any problems when a subject isn't a living thing.
- That sentence sounds okay to me, as well as I don't see any problems when a subject isn't a living thing.
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That sentence sounds okay to me, as well as I don't see any problems when a subject isn't a living thing.
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