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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Tense agreement for multiple clauses

0 I'm confused with tense agreement across clauses of a sentence. Should all the tenses match or is it ok to mismatch?02br
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001. He designed an airplane that flies at 200 knots.02br
002. He designed an airplane that flew at 200 knots.02br
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003. Tomorrow he will have designed an airplane that flies at 200 knots.02br
004. Tomorrow he will have designed an airplane that flew at 200 knots.02br
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005. He created a ball that falls fast and bounces high.02br
006. He created a ball that fell fast and bounced high.02br
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004 seems wrong, but the others sound reasonable to me. My interpretation is a sentence like 1 or 5 indicates that the secondary fact may still be true while the structure in 2 and 6 indicates it is likely not true anymore.0-
  

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