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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

The first thing we did

Hello,

Is the sentence correct and what is this tense?
'The first thing we did was clean the dishes.'
  

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Anonymous Is the sentence correct It’s grammatical, but I would use the present tense of be instead of the past tense because cleaning the dishes is still the first thing you did; that fact hasn’t changed. Incidentally, wash the dishes is more idiomatic. The first thing we did is wash the dishes.

— RandomGuy

  • Anonymous Is the sentence correct It’s grammatical, but I would use the present tense of be instead of the past tense because cleaning the dishes is still the first thing you did; that fact hasn’t changed.
  • Incidentally, wash the dishes is more idiomatic.
  • The first thing we did is wash the dishes.
  • Anonymous What is this tense?
  • If you’re asking about clean , it’s the plain form of the verb; hence, it is not inflected for tense.
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AnonymousIs the sentence correct
It’s grammatical, but I would use the present tense of be instead of the past tense because cleaning the dishes is still the first thing you did; that fact hasn’t changed. Incidentally, wash the dishes is more idiomatic.

The first thing we did is wash the dishes.
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