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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Quick question! use of adapt/adapted



The ideal that your back-office could evolve and adapted at an equal pace to the movers and shakers in your front office is real

"Hi all! would appreciate your comments on the above, adapt or adapted?"



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Either one, depending on your meaning. It could evolve and could adapt? Or It could evolve (and did) and as a result adapated ...?

— BarbaraPA

  • Either one, depending on your meaning.
  • It could evolve and could adapt?
  • Or It could evolve (and did) and as a result adapated ...?
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Either one, depending on your meaning.

It could evolve and could adapt?

Or

It could evolve (and did) and as a result adapated ...?
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It could evolve and could adapt is the intention here...


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could evolve and could adapt
In that case, you definitely want adapt, not adapted. Modal verbs (and could is one of them) are not followed by past tense or past participle forms.

CJ
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That's great, thank you


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