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- Is what happened is correct? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
2 Let me provide one example from a local news: "Essentially what happened is the state approved the same dollar amount it did last year for the supplemental general fund" My thinking is, the above, as well generally, is incorrect b c of the verb-agreement rules - and "what happened was " would be [more] correct, context depended obviously
- What happen or what happened - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
2 "What happened?" is correct here If your question refers to the whole sentence "Which is correct and preferred: what happen or what happened?" then I would rephrase it as Which is correct: "what happen" or "what happened"?
- Why it happened or Why did it happen? - WordReference Forums
For example: What happened? is correct and What did happen? is incorrect In object questions we need auxiliary verbs, for example "Why did it happen?" But I saw today these kind of sentences: Why this happened; When, where, why and how it happened, without question marks, so these are not questions, but sentences or titles of some articles
- I just happened? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"I just happened to be nearby" implies that being nearby was what made it occur to X that it would be convenient to use the bathroom Honestly, I'm trying to think of a situation in which I'd have a clear preference for one over the other, and I'm failing They're virtually equivalent
- Past tense: happen to have or happened to have?
The perfect infinitive also encompasses the past, so I happened to have observed would generally be used if you were talking about two past times – one time in the past that is the focus of the conversation, and earlier times in the past when you observed it
- grammaticality - Is it correct to say It was not happened? - English . . .
Is it correct to say "It was not happened"? I have heard people saying "It was not happening" or "It didn't happen" but "It was not happened" is new to me
- What ever happened to versus Whatever happened to?
What ever happened to (some noun from the past)? I came to English SE to resolve it I read the (related) questions: Whatever happened to "what ever" and whenever did it happen? Can "whatever" be split into two words? but was unable to glean which was preferred in my context Is there a preference, or are they equivalent? Is there a rule I can
- what happened vs what could have happened? - English Language Usage . . .
What is the difference between 'what happened?' and 'what could have happened? 1) I couldn't see Gina last month Do you know what happened to her? (or Do you know what could have happened to her?
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