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This tag is for questions about the usage of tenses to refer to the past.
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Is it correct to say "My teacher yesterday was in Beijing."?
In the sentence "My teacher yesterday was in Beijing", "yesterday" attaches to "teacher".
Hence it means:
"The teacher who was teaching us yesterday was in Beijing at the time."
It suggests that you …
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The sentence "I just have noticed now [...]", tense and adverbial constructions
Better to say "I noticed just now", keeping "just"+"now" together, or there may be confusion that "just" qualifies "noticed" rather than "now".
"I just noticed now" can be interpreted to mean: "Now (a …
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