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tanguatlay
 
Reply Mon 30 Jan, 2017 01:34 am
He said that the bodies were yet to be collected.

Is "were" correctly used? Shouldn't it be "had" instead?

Thanks.
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hightor
 
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Reply Mon 30 Jan, 2017 03:47 am
Either auxiliary verb is correct here. There might be a preference for one or the other depending on context but as it stands, "were" is fine.
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Mon 30 Jan, 2017 12:57 pm
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Either auxiliary verb is correct here. There might be a preference for one or the other depending on context but as it stands, "were" is fine.
Thank you.
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centrox
 
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Reply Mon 30 Jan, 2017 01:35 pm
Were yet to be collected: it was planned to collect them, but this had not yet happened.

Had yet to be collected: they needed to be collected, but this had not yet happened.
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Tue 31 Jan, 2017 05:21 am
@centrox,
centrox wrote:

Were yet to be collected: it was planned to collect them, but this had not yet happened.

Had yet to be collected: they needed to be collected, but this had not yet happened.
Thank you.
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