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Kingston123 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Why "had" instead of "have"?
I didn't know Michael had a sister in New York.
Why "had" instead of "have"?
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kingston123 Why "had" instead of "have"? Have would be incorrect. Has would be right, too.
- kingston123 Why "had" instead of "have"?
- Have would be incorrect.
- Has would be right, too.
- Had is used owing to a grammatical phenomenon called the sequence of tenses.
- Did is past tense and therefore had is possible.
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kingston123Why "had" instead of "have"?
Have would be incorrect. Has would be right, too. Had is used owing to a grammatical phenomenon called the sequence of tenses. Did is past tense and therefore had is possible.
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