Timeline for Why does this sentence adopt different tenses?
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| Jun 21, 2013 at 4:12 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Listenever Yes. McCawley remarks somewhere (I can't lay my eyes on it at the moment) apropos of complicated structures like this that have isn't so much a component of an ordinary "perfect" construction as it is a marker for "pastness". That seems to me to mean it can shuttle back and forth between the know piece and the to VERB piece—which is what you have just done! | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 3:57 | vote | accept | Listenever | ||
| Jun 21, 2013 at 3:57 | comment | added | Listenever | I happened to meet an interesting sentence in The Scarlet Letter. ‘Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.’ Is this more proper consulting your answer when it is said like this : ‘Pestilence had been known to be foreboded by a shower of crimson light.’ | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 18:27 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 16:07 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 15:47 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |