English Grammar Hi friends are these right? I really have no idea which tense I should use in these sentences. 1. It was he who killed my brother or should it say "it is he who killed my brother." 2

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English Grammar Hi friends are these right? I really have no idea which tense I should use in these sentences. 1. It was he who killed my brother or should it say "it is he who killed my brother." 2. he is the one who killed my brother or should it say "he was the one who killed my brother."

18 nov. 2019 03:02

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In my opinion, it doesn’t really matter that much. In these examples, the subordinate clause is irrelevant to the tense in the main clause. If “he” is still around now, then the present tense is better. If “he” is no longer around, we would be more likely to use the past, but we might use the present if his action was so important as to render him “immortal”.

18 novembre 2019