A grammar question I'm sheepish to ask: can the word 'submit' be used as is in present and past tense? Or does the past tense *have* to be submitted?
@scottschuman What a great resource that site is!
@miriam
I don't understand English well enough, but what is the effective tense in "They were forced to submit"?
@selfnoise I think the tricky problem here is it's the infinitive; the verb that takes the tense is "forced." (I did actually take a semester-long class on teaching grammar to ESL students not even a year ago, but my brain couldn't help but treat it as a series of logic puzzles to be solved and forgotten. This past decade I've felt like my ability to forget has been the skill I've honed most.)
@miriam I'm pretty sure it always has to be "submitted". I've certainly never "submit" used in the past tense. Words like put, bet and shed that don't change are really small set. Words like submit borrowed from Latin or other foreign languages almost have regular past tense forms in English.
@nangar Thanks so much for that fantastic explanation + context!
@miriam
Your question made me wonder too! Looks like "submitted": http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-submit.html