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Forum: English Questions Jul 14th, 2012, 04:01 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: is/was? why?

"in" sounds clumsy here - notice I omitted it in the example.

The point is that by fronting "1921" it's receiving contrastive emphasis, as in my example. The speaker is saying, No - not 1921 but...
Forum: English Questions Jul 13th, 2012, 03:18 am
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Views: 2,781
Posted By susan53
Re: is/was? why?

Both could occur - this sentence would occur in a context where the speaker was correcting a mistake and the "permanent truth" of the fact might be more in his/her mind than the "pastness" of the...
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