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Creativeguru Posted 18 years ago
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past tense in future tense sentence

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The above sentence is future tense, but we are using 'won' that is past tense of 'win'. Kindly just explain me the usage here
  

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Passive voice infinitive. Passive voice = verb to be + past participle. " Won " is the past participle of the verb " to win ".

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  • Passive voice infinitive.
  • Passive voice = verb to be + past participle.
  • " Won " is the past participle of the verb " to win ".
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Passive voice infinitive. Passive voice = verb to be + past participle. "Won" is the past participle of the verb "to win".
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The sentence is written with a passive voice. Here is some information on it.
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