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Ansonguy Posted 8 years ago
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Retired or have retired
| Two of my colleagues retired last month. My boss held a retirement celebration for them. He asked those who could attend it to contribute $20 towards it. Even though I could not make it, I made a contribution. I have another colleague who will retire at the end of next month. My boss is doing the same thing for him. I will make a contribution again even though I cannot make it. When I give him the $20 contribution on Friday, he might say to me, "Don't feel pressed to do so." This is what I will say to him. (1) I'm happy to have had the opportunity to work with my excellent colleagues before they retired. Here, I am using the past tense "retired". While it's true that two of my colleagues retired last month, my next colleague has not yet retired. I don't think I can use the past tense there. How can I fix the tense? Thanks a lot. |
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ansonguy I'm happy to have had the opportunity to work with my excellent colleague s before they retired. It sounds like you're mistakenly talking about the two who retired earlier. It's just for the one, so use the singular.
- ansonguy I'm happy to have had the opportunity to work with my excellent colleague s before they retired.
- It sounds like you're mistakenly talking about the two who retired earlier.
- It's just for the one, so use the singular.
- my excellent colleague before he/she retired .
- The tenses don't need to be fixed.
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ansonguyI'm happy to have had the opportunity to work with my excellent colleagues before they retired. ???
It sounds like you're mistakenly talking about the two who retired earlier. It's just for the one, so use the singular.
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