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The Unreal Past: When the Past Tense is Not About the Past
This article is going to possibly BLOW YOUR MIND about how to understand the past tense in English. 💡Here’s the long and short of it: THE PAST TENSE IS NOT ABOUT THE PAST. Before you go to textbooks and look for proof to disagree with me, let me just clarify one thing. Yes, we often use the past tense to talk about things that happened. For example: I love her. (= I still love her, constantly every day!) I loved her. (= I used to love her, but not anymore.) In a way, you can think of the p
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