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Ticce Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Subjunctive + simple past form

It's time you did it.

As far as I undersatnd - did - is an indication of subjunctive here.

Here it is a question if we put it into indirect speech do we need to switch did to had done?

He said it was time you did/had done it.
  

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Ticce It's time you did it. As far as I undersatnd - did - is an indication of subjunctive here. I consider did a preterite/preterit in the sentence rather than a subjunctive.

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  • Ticce It's time you did it.
  • As far as I undersatnd - did - is an indication of subjunctive here.
  • I consider did a preterite/preterit in the sentence rather than a subjunctive.
  • All manner of idioms abound in English and sometimes its is difficult to put a label on some structures or words.
  • This is because in many cases people have used these structures for centuries without worrying about their grammatical names.
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TicceIt's time you did it.

As far as I undersatnd - did - is an indication of subjunctive here.
I consider did a preterite/preterit in the sentence rather than a subjunctive. All manner of idioms abound in English and sometimes its is difficult to put a label on some structures or words. This is because in many cases people have used these stru
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