LevyLi
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I use "past tense" to describe the process for making a fried chicken.
In step 1, you thawed a frozen chicken.
In step 2, you breaded the thawed chicken.
In step 3, you fried the breaded chicken.
If someone want to ask the question "under what condition did you thawed the frozen chicken?,"
could he/she use "when the fried chicken was the frozen chicken, under what condition did you thawed it?"
Are the two sentences identical?
I have this confusion, because the sentence "the president was the/a boss" indicate the current president was a boss, and now isn't.
In the example, I describe the former position of the person mentioned now.
I think "when the fried chicken was the frozen chicken" is also allowable to describe the former state of the fried chicken.
In step 1, you thawed a frozen chicken.
In step 2, you breaded the thawed chicken.
In step 3, you fried the breaded chicken.
If someone want to ask the question "under what condition did you thawed the frozen chicken?,"
could he/she use "when the fried chicken was the frozen chicken, under what condition did you thawed it?"
Are the two sentences identical?
I have this confusion, because the sentence "the president was the/a boss" indicate the current president was a boss, and now isn't.
In the example, I describe the former position of the person mentioned now.
I think "when the fried chicken was the frozen chicken" is also allowable to describe the former state of the fried chicken.
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