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user 9106
This tag is for questions about tense, or location in time by grammatical forms and constructions rather than by semantics.
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"He saw it stop and his son get out"
"He saw it stop" is the past tense, but it's a particular construction, where you use the past tense of see (saw), and the present tense (or infinitive minus the "to") of stop. … The two verbs are connected, so the fact that saw is past tense implies that the whole phrase is. …
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