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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The tense of the past participle phrase

Nikos Kazntzskis suggests that ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross,
then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

I'd like to know which Is right between the followings when the past participle phrase in bold is restored?
1) then after they have facilitated their crossing
2) then after they facilitated their crossing
  

Top answer

park sang joon then after they have facilitated their crossing This one fits the sentence better. Like 'suggests', 'use', 'invite', and 'collapse', 'have' is in the present tense, forming the present perfect (compound) tense. CJ

— CalifJim

  • park sang joon then after they have facilitated their crossing This one fits the sentence better.
  • Like 'suggests', 'use', 'invite', and 'collapse', 'have' is in the present tense, forming the present perfect (compound) tense.
  • CJ
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park sang joonthen after they have facilitated their crossing
This one fits the sentence better. Like 'suggests', 'use', 'invite', and 'collapse', 'have' is in the present tense, forming the present perfect (compound) tense.

CJ
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Thank you, Mr.Jim, for your quick and precise answer. Emotion: smile
But I have known the tense of the past participle precedes the that of th
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park sang joonso can I use ... the past tense in such cases
You can, but I don't recommend it. The tenses fall into two categories — those that have a present "point of view" and those that have a past "point of view":

Present POV: Present, Present Perfect, will, can, ...
Past POV: Past, Past Perfect, would, could, ...

If
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Thank you, Mr.Jim for your elaborate and detailed answer. Emotion: smile
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