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("What sped things up for me" or I suppose you could say "What speeds things up for me;" hope this is received well by commenter HN community in the spirit of h
by loceng 11y ago
("What sped things up for me" or I suppose you could say "What speeds things up for me;" hope this is received well by commenter HN community in the spirit of helping someone learn/improve their language)
- ghshephard 11y agoI would have used the form, "What sped things up for me." when describing something that happened in the past. "What speeds things up for me" is a different sense - it's talking about the present.
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- Someone1234 11y agoThat isn't a correction. Both "sped things" and "speeds things" are both legal English and both mean similar things (although as another commenter correctly notes, the tenses are subtly different). Downvoters can read this: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/114620/speeded-vs-sped https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/114620/speeded-v... Sped is a perfectly valid English word. If you don't believe so then you should question your own knowledge of the language.
- kwhitefoot 11y agoNeither are legal English. In this context 'legal' can only mean 'having to do with the law' as there is no statutory definition of the English language (well not British English at least).
- shkkmo 11y agoWhat I should have written was "What would speed things up for me"
- loceng 11y agoAh, I thought it was a feature that was already available; I've not deeply used Duolingo yet.