Timeline for Why is the past tense sometimes used in a sentence together with the present tense?
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 10:36 | comment | added | Sam | The use of the past tense "used to be" indicates that the speaker had a previous job in government service, while the present tense "am no longer" signifies their current status outside of government service. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 9:39 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | Am no longer means that the speaker doesn’t work in the government service anymore. The sentence has the same structure as I grew up in Paris but now live in the US. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 8:44 | comment | added | timchessish | The first part is about the past, the second is about the current state, i.e. the present. | |
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| S Sep 18, 2023 at 8:32 | history | asked | Elizabeth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |