rapra
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- Joined
- Mar 29, 2011
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Bosnian
- Home Country
- Bhutan
- Current Location
- Barbados
Hi,
I had always this confusion on connecting stative passives with before.Because of this my fluency is getting hurt. When you are talking on some thing, some times your point of talking will be based on the actions and some times based on states of the objects.When you are making individual statements either with reference to action or with reference to state i don't have any problem.For example consider the below statements
A:Files are moved by Ram(When you are observing the files, based on the information on who accessed the file last, this statement is correct)
B:Files were moved by Ram(When you are clearly referring the past action of movement, this statement is also correct)
My confusion comes when i am connecting two such statements with conjunction before.
C:Before the files were moved into this itself these things were verified.(This is also correct.Here you are referring two actions in the past and making the statement.I can visualize the timing and actions involved in the statement.Mental picture is perfect.)
My main confusion is in the following statement
D:Before this files are moved into this itself seems like these are all verified (when i am seeing the files in the folder, and observing the information about the files, then making the statement with reference to the state of the files(i.e the files in the moved state) i feel like this statement is also correct.My mental picture in that context make me feel that this sentence is correct.But i am not able to confidently say whether it is correct or not.Can you please clarify me whether i am correct or not.)
I had always this confusion on connecting stative passives with before.Because of this my fluency is getting hurt. When you are talking on some thing, some times your point of talking will be based on the actions and some times based on states of the objects.When you are making individual statements either with reference to action or with reference to state i don't have any problem.For example consider the below statements
A:Files are moved by Ram(When you are observing the files, based on the information on who accessed the file last, this statement is correct)
B:Files were moved by Ram(When you are clearly referring the past action of movement, this statement is also correct)
My confusion comes when i am connecting two such statements with conjunction before.
C:Before the files were moved into this itself these things were verified.(This is also correct.Here you are referring two actions in the past and making the statement.I can visualize the timing and actions involved in the statement.Mental picture is perfect.)
My main confusion is in the following statement
D:Before this files are moved into this itself seems like these are all verified (when i am seeing the files in the folder, and observing the information about the files, then making the statement with reference to the state of the files(i.e the files in the moved state) i feel like this statement is also correct.My mental picture in that context make me feel that this sentence is correct.But i am not able to confidently say whether it is correct or not.Can you please clarify me whether i am correct or not.)
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