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Teal car 285 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Verb tense confusion. Help please!

Somebody has wrote to me about an event in the past, and I’m confused about the correct tense to use.

Which one is correct:

About that event, I happened to know about it as I’d seen the ad somewhere.

OR

About that event, I happen to know about it as I saw the ad somewhere


Or maybe there are better ways of saying of that?

Thank you in advance.

  

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It is right now that you happen to know it, so it is "happen."

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Somebody has written to me about an event in the past, and I’m confused about the correct tense to use.

Which one is correct:

About that event, I happened to know about that event as I’d seen the ad somewhere. Fine. Sounds like you knew about it at the time it happened.

OR

About that event, I happen to know about that event

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