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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Yesterday I just realised that I was a handsome person.

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01font01b001:02b00 Yesterday I just realised that I was a handsome person.02font02br
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01font01b002:02b00 Yesterday I just realise that I am a handsome person.02font02br
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01font00Probably you would say that only sentence #1 is correct according to the rule of concordance of tenses in a certain sentence. 01b00But I don't think sentence #2 should be considered incorrect.02b00 If yesterday I was a handsome person, then in one night things do not change to such an extent that the very next day I would become an ugly person. Here rules of English of grammar are contradicting the real life situations. 01b00Don't you think?02b02font0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jackson661212cite 12br 11font 10 Here rules of English of grammar are contradicting the real life situations. 12b 12font 12br 12br 12blockquote 10No, I don't think so. 02i 0-

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jackson661212cite 12br 11font 10 Here rules of English of grammar are contradicting the real life situations.
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10No, I don't think so. You can use a present tense if the statement i
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01font01b002:02b00 Yesterday I just realise01font00d02font00 that I am a handsome person.02font02br
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00The last part of the sentence is most likely true today, but the 'realizing' happened in the past.02br
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11font11b101:12b10 Yesterday I just realised that I was a handsome person.12font12br
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11font11b102:12b10 Yesterday I just realise11b11u10d12u12b10 that I am a handsome
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0I think that with "realizing" (even more than most other actions) using the present tense makes perfect sense, unless the situation has changed since you reached your realization.02br
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00Just yesterday, I finally realized that although I 01i00am 02i00fat, I 0
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