Olive scarf 445 Posted 7 years ago
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English
I heard this on the news recently: "A man is being killed...". Shouldn't it be: " A man was killed....". ? I am confused.
Top answer
". ". Not necessarily.
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olive scarf 445I heard this on the news recently: "A man is being killed...". Shouldn't it be: " A man was killed....". ?
Not necessarily. Maybe he is going to be killed in the future. We can use A man is being killed for that idea.
CJ
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