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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Tense and aspect

what is the tense and aspect for the italicised verbs in the following extract. please help me.

'...Mr Watts had a sense of her life but couldn't get near her for that wall standing between them.'
  

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Unless there is something hidden in the sentence which I failed to see, this is simple past tense.

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  • Unless there is something hidden in the sentence which I failed to see, this is simple past tense.
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Unless there is something hidden in the sentence which I failed to see, this is simple past tense.
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had=simple, past tense

couldn't get=Modal Tense
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