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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Tense use in two different contexts
Hi. Are these tenses possible/correct?
1.I think the tense of the underlined part is correct since the part with the present perfect passive tense describes a situation not related to the tense in the main clause. I think this use of present perfect or present perfect passive is wide spread including cooking instructions where it is used to make sequence clear but perhaps not related to the present (as in main context).
He appeared in a play about a woman faced with the possibility of assuming finances of a household that has been devastated by a storm.
2. I feel we usually find the underlined part in a past tense or past in form (if I said it right). Is it correct to have what looks to be present in form?
Feeling tired, he decided that he must sleep if he is to get up early tommorrow.
1.I think the tense of the underlined part is correct since the part with the present perfect passive tense describes a situation not related to the tense in the main clause. I think this use of present perfect or present perfect passive is wide spread including cooking instructions where it is used to make sequence clear but perhaps not related to the present (as in main context).
He appeared in a play about a woman faced with the possibility of assuming finances of a household that has been devastated by a storm.
2. I feel we usually find the underlined part in a past tense or past in form (if I said it right). Is it correct to have what looks to be present in form?
Feeling tired, he decided that he must sleep if he is to get up early tommorrow.
Top answer
#1 is fine. #2 is simlar to reported speech. It sounds Ok to me.
- #1 is fine.
- #2 is simlar to reported speech.
- It sounds Ok to me.
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#1 is fine.
#2 is simlar to reported speech. It sounds Ok to me.
#2 is simlar to reported speech. It sounds Ok to me.
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1. It's usual to describe the actions of fictional characters in a book or play in the present tense, which indicates that you should use "has been". Here we know that the actions in the play were actually acted out in the past (he "appeared" in the play), but I think the play's plot is sufficiently divorced from its performance to make "has been" the more logical choice. Having said that, if I w
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