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Hanuman_2000 Posted 21 years ago
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The thread spun from sheep’s hair is called wollen thread.
Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true.
Thanks.
The thread spun from sheep’s hair is called wollen thread.
Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true.
Thanks.
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The thread spun from sheep’s hair is called woollen thread. Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is not a past tense, Sir, it's a past participle and it represents the remains of an embedded reduced (passive) relative clause.
- The thread spun from sheep’s hair is called woollen thread.
- Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true.
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is not a past tense, Sir, it's a past participle and it represents the remains of an embedded reduced (passive) relative clause.
- The thread is called woollen thread.
- [It] that has been spun from sheep’s hair The thread that has been spun from sheep’s hair is called woollen thread.
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The thread spun from sheep’s hair is called woollen thread.
Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
is not a past tense, Sir, it's a past participle and it represents the remains of an embedded reduced (passive) relative clause.
The thre
Why past tense has been used in above sentence,though fact denoted by sentence is still true.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
is not a past tense, Sir, it's a past participle and it represents the remains of an embedded reduced (passive) relative clause.
The thre
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