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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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"To wish was to hope" Why using "was" instead of "is"?
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect" Jane Austen
What is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"?
What is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"?
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Anonymous What is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"? Presumably it refers to a former attitude in the past.
- Anonymous What is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"?
- Presumably it refers to a former attitude in the past.
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AnonymousWhat is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"?Presumably it refers to a former attitude in the past.
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AnonymousWhat is the purpose of using "was" instead of "is"?The whole sentence is in the past tense. The novel from which this excerpt is taken is, like almost all novels, a narrative of what happened, not tonight's breaking news about what is happening now. So why should it be in the present?
These were the sorts of distorted mental processes tha
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