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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Past with present tense
Do the tenses concur for what I'm trying to say?
1. If I go to the doctor to get a note, I can get paid sick days. If I don't go I don't pay for the doctor but I don't get paid sick days. So even though I paid for the doctor (yesterday), it still means I come out on top (general statement so present tense?) because I get paid sick days. I make more then if I had paid for the doctor and hadn't gotten paid sick days.
ps is it correct to say "Do the tenses concur for what I'm trying to say?"
1. If I go to the doctor to get a note, I can get paid sick days. If I don't go I don't pay for the doctor but I don't get paid sick days. So even though I paid for the doctor (yesterday), it still means I come out on top (general statement so present tense?) because I get paid sick days. I make more then if I had paid for the doctor and hadn't gotten paid sick days.
ps is it correct to say "Do the tenses concur for what I'm trying to say?"
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I don't believe you can mix the real and the hypothetical like this. The first two sentences are fine, because they're hypothetical. Likewise the last one.
- I don't believe you can mix the real and the hypothetical like this.
- The first two sentences are fine, because they're hypothetical.
- Likewise the last one.
- " (real) Well, maybe yours is okay, but it's not a general statement.
- It's like, "This is what I did .
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I don't believe you can mix the real and the hypothetical like this.
The first two sentences are fine, because they're hypothetical. Likewise the last one.
The third sentence should be, "So even though I pay for the doctor, I still come out on top, because I get paid sick days."
(hypothetical)
OR "So even though I paid for the doctor, I will come out on top, b
The first two sentences are fine, because they're hypothetical. Likewise the last one.
The third sentence should be, "So even though I pay for the doctor, I still come out on top, because I get paid sick days."
(hypothetical)
OR "So even though I paid for the doctor, I will come out on top, b
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Hi
Is it correct to say " do the tenses concur" "do the clauses concur together"?
Is it correct to say " do the tenses concur" "do the clauses concur together"?
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AnonymousIs it correct to say " do the tenses concur" "do the clauses concur together"?In my opinion, "Do the tenses concur?" is correct but unusual. It means, "Do they agree/concur?"
"Do they concur together?" is redundant. And I don't believe there's any sense in which clauses are supposed to "agree."
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