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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?
@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.)