As you said or as you say?
As you mentioned or as you mention?
As he described or as he describes?
Which are correct?
If I understand correctly, the formers are correct.
Why use past tense here?
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Sign up to join this communityAs you said or as you say?
As you mentioned or as you mention?
As he described or as he describes?
Which are correct?
If I understand correctly, the formers are correct.
Why use past tense here?
When you are constructing a sentence such as the above, you must always use the verb in the past tense form. This is because we are usually talking about an event that has already happened.
However, if, for example, the person in question was still saying/mentioning/describing the thing, then you could use the present form or the present continuous form:
Furtherly, I feel that another situation in which it would be correct to use 'as you say' etc would be if you were talking about what someone does customarily. For example: