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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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"what we've done is taken some of the dishes and modernized them a little bit." In the place of is isnt it was and in the place of taken isnt it take?
  

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What we've done is taken some of the dishes and modernized them a little bit. The sentence is fine. It is present tense.

  • What we've done is taken some of the dishes and modernized them a little bit.
  • The sentence is fine.
  • It is present tense.
  • Here is another way to write it: What we have done is (that we have) taken some of the dishes and (we have) modernized them a little bit.
  • It can be changed to past tense, too: What we did was take some of the dishes and modernize them a bit.
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What we've done is taken some of the dishes and modernized them a little bit.

The sentence is fine. It is present tense. Here is another way to write it:

What we have done is (that we have) taken some of the dishes and (we have) modernized them a little bit.

It can be changed to past tense, too:

What we did was take some of the dishes and mod

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