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After a past indicative tense form the distinction of meaning between present and past tense forms usually disappears entirely She desired that he might come at once We demanded that the burden should be removed In recent literature and present colloquial usage however the tendency occasionally...

Peaceblinkfriend wrote Thank you for your opinion Kooyeen I enjoyed reading it I was also a bit aware of the implication of that expression so I thought I would sought the opinions of others I would seek After would a verb in the simple present tense is required

MrPedantic wrote You often encounter now simple past in narrative where it denotes a reported present e g Thank you MrP yes that is another way to use now with the past simple tense But I was actually looking for more examples at the present time not in the past That is now and simple past...

CalifJim wrote Can you give me the Bronson report Here Gives the wrong report You gave me the Klinglurch report I need the Bronson report OK Here Gives another wrong report Geez Now you gave me the Dormbrinkler report Sorry Here Gives the right report Thanks So it is ok to use a simple past...

Hi everyone I m back Thank you for all your relplies Grammar Geek wrote The now says that there has been some change of state in understanding You went from a state of not understanding to a state of understanding and that s what s different NOW So to use a past tense to show a change of state...

Trex wrote Taka wrote Just out of curiosity I ve seen many times in movies soldiers communicating like this As soon as we ve got all the survivors transferred we ll destroy the wreck by fire Yes Sir Understood Why understood short for It What you said Your order was understood So it s the past...

Yankee wrote Well in American English people probably wouldn t have much of a problem putting now together with the simple past tense For example if you were trying to pay for some things in a store and the cashier had made a string of errors rang up wrong prices dropped and broke one of your...

Pucca if someone tells you something you already know you can say with varying degrees of politeness Yes I understood that already But you can t say I understood that now You have to had already understood it The now says that there has been some change of state in understanding You went from a...

Well in American English people probably wouldn t have much of a problem putting now together with the simple past tense For example if you were trying to pay for some things in a store and the cashier had made a string of errors rang up wrong prices dropped and broke one of your items etc and...

Hey you guys have written so much in my thread Thank you thank you Ok now I m here Well I asked about I understood it now because it seemed to me that it was not the structure that was wrong it was the verb that didn t go well with that structure I already asked in another thread about now past...