The above sentence is excerpted from Ted Speech - What I discovered New York City trash
I’m an English learner here in Taiwan. I always think that a sentence contains a word of “now”, then the tense must not be past tense. What is the point that I have missed to learn, thanks.
Help! Grammar question. "So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now".?
2017-03-01 10:35 am
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2017-03-01 11:28 am
✔ 最佳答案
"So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now".What it's saying is, "So I took the job as a sanitation worker. Before I became employed as a sanitation worker, I used to just hitch rides or get free rides in the trucks for fun and sport; now I'm riding in the trucks for a legitimate reason; I'm a sanitation worker."
"I didn't just ride in the trucks now." That says the same thing in short hand, with "now" referring back to and refuting the idea that the author is still just riding in the trucks". Now he has a job to do.
Hope that helps.
參考: TLM
2017-03-01 10:47 am
It is an odd sentence, but the "now" at the end is normally a colloquialism for "(now) I need you to understand".
2017-03-01 10:49 am
It is not "formal" English, but it's quite acceptable as colloquial writing.
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