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When is it okay to use different verb tenses in the same sentence?
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∙ 10y ago
It depends on what you are writing/talking about.
Because different tenses are used to convey different situations. For example present simple is used to talk about something we do again and again eg
We go to the beach for the holidays.
Past simple is used to talk about something that happened in the past and is completed eg
We went to the mountains.
So combining these two sentences:
We usually go to the beach for our holidays but this year we went to the mountains.
People don't usually talk or write in one tense all the time. Another example.
We drove quickly to the station but the train had left.
drove = past simple
had left = past perfect.
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YES. Because different tenses are used to convey different situations. For example present simple is used to talk about something we do again and again eg We go to the beach for the holidays. Past simple is used to talk about something that happened in the past and is completed eg We went to the mountains. So combining these two sentences: We usually go to the beach for our holidays but this year we went to the mountains.
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