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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Tenses

Parents function as our role models from the day we are born
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Is it possible to put 'we were born' in the following?

'Parents have been functioning as our role models from the day we were born'
But it looks like a personal case, for example, if I am talking to my sister about our parnets...Possible, isn't it?
  

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Hello Mav I take the sentence as a general statement saying a permanent truth like "Man is born and dies". So to me it sounds OK as it is. paco

  • Hello Mav I take the sentence as a general statement saying a permanent truth like "Man is born and dies".
  • So to me it sounds OK as it is.
  • paco
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Hello Mav

I take the sentence as a general statement saying a permanent truth like "Man is born and dies". So to me it sounds OK as it is.

paco

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