Timeline for come to mind or came to mind
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 23:19 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | @FlyingPenguin If you use "we were trying", that means that the events were in the past. The time of the action is the reason the verb tense is chosen. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 23:12 | comment | added | FlyingPenguin |
Thanks. Am I right to understand that Come or came are both correct depends if we were trying or we are trying is used? It doesn't matter if the events is in the past or present?
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:23 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | @KateBunting Yes. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:21 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Came to mind accords with were trying, surely? | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:19 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Yes, but I introduced the word consider , which doesn't appear in the OP, to point out that the tense of come isn't a free choice. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:48 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | The key point here, surely, is that the tense of 'come' must match the tense of 'consider'? | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 9:53 | history | answered | Jack O'Flaherty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |