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Necrophagist Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Were/are

When did you find out you were/are anaemic?

Which one?

  

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were To fulfill a syntactic convention it matches the tense of 'did', so we just use common sense and the context to adjust it to the proper time period in our minds. CJ

  • were To fulfill a syntactic convention it matches the tense of 'did', so we just use common sense and the context to adjust it to the proper time period in our minds.
  • CJ
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were

To fulfill a syntactic convention it matches the tense of 'did', so we just use common sense and the context to adjust it to the proper time period in our minds.

CJ

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