Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

What has / had / was written

Can I say,

He found it hard to read what has / had / was written .
  

Top answer

He found it hard to read what was written. -- this is the most common. He found it hard to read what had been written.

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He found it hard to read what was written. -- this is the most common.

He found it hard to read what had been written.
He finds it hard to read what has been written. -- these are also possible in certain situtations.