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Behnazzz Posted 20 years ago
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Many of today's headlines focus on the new alliance with France. The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper writes "Poland teams up with France against stingy Great Britain". Just two weeks ago, it adds, the Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, told his British counterpart Tony Blair in London, that Poland considers the UK its closest European ally. Now the paper's main headline reads, "We love the French again"

why is it written adds instead of added after the world `ago' wich shows it is in the past?

Elsewhere, a prominent opposition politician, Jan Rokita, says the government shouldn't be afraid of vetoing the budget if Poland is offered less than the 60 billion euros on the table six months ago

.Again in this parts it is said` is offerd' instead of `has offerd' despite the word ago?

can you explain why it is like this please?

thanks:)
  

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The language of media is a bit different, both in vocabulary and grammar, than the normal writing. One of the differences is the tense, as you've mentioned. If the time of the event, state,...

— LanguageLover

  • The language of media is a bit different, both in vocabulary and grammar, than the normal writing.
  • One of the differences is the tense, as you've mentioned.
  • If the time of the event, state,...
  • is past, the tense of the sentence is present; if it is past perfect, then the sentence is past; and you can figure out the rest.
  • as well), so we would have: Many of today's headlines focused on the new alliance with France.
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The language of media is a bit different, both in vocabulary and grammar, than the normal writing. One of the differences is the tense, as you've mentioned. If the time of the event, state,... is past, the tense of the sentence is present; if it is past perfect, then the sentence is past; and you can figure out the rest. For example, the verbs in the first paragraph would be in the past tense if i
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Hi

so if it was in past tense,would it be right to say......he said the goverment shouldn't have been afraid of vetoing the budget if poland was offerd lesss than......
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Had been offered, was offered is already in past tense.
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