pay/paid

[idiotmike]

Dear all,

Here is a reading from the Economist below. My question is why use "pay" instead of "paid" when later in the sentence the author uses "rose" to describe Germany's interest rate? Thank you very much.

"The extra interest that both countries pay to borrow for ten years compared with Germany rose to euro-era records this week"

Sincerely

[5jj]

My question is why use "pay" instead of "paid" when later in the sentence the author uses "rose" to describe Germany's interest rate? Thank you very much.

"The extra interest that both countries pay (at all times) to borrow for ten years compared with Germany rose (past time) to euro-era records this week"

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[Barb_D]

Does anyone else feel this should have been "Germany's" instead of "Germany"? The comparison is the nations' interest rates, not the nations themselves.

[5jj]

Does anyone else feel this should have been "Germany's" instead of "Germany"? The comparison is the nations' interest rates, not the nations themselves.

I read it as, "The extra interest that both countries pay to borrow for ten years compared with the interest rate that Germany pays rose to euro-era records this week"