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user 18606
This tag is for questions about tense, or location in time by grammatical forms and constructions rather than by semantics.
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Said he had been surprised or said he was surprised?
The reporting word said is in the past, so every other verb in the indirect statement has to go one tense further back in the past (as jimsug said). …
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Using "is" and "are" with Verb
As ultrasawblade said:
be (auxiliary) + past participle (of the main verb) = passive voice.
In the passive, the person or thing that the action was done to becomes the topic or theme. (CDO Engl …
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