is this sentence correct?
"if a team works hard but nobody notices, did it really happen?"
I came across this sentence and it doesn't seem really correct to me. There's no context.
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I would replace “but” with “and” for better reading :)
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Did = past tense of "do", but it is also commonly used with BOTH plural and singular subjects ("a team (of workers)", "a tree")
Does = present tense of "do", but it is also ONLY used with SINGULAR subjects ("a tree")
So because your sentence uses a plural subject ("team") it must use "did".
The other example sentence with the tree is singular, so it could use "did" OR "does".
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hi! why is "did it happen" used in the second part? Wouldn't it be more logical to use" DOES it really happen"?
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Hi Anya. It is correct grammatically. Why do you think it is not? It reminds me of the old philosophical question of "If a tree falls in the forest, but no one hears it, does it make a sound? Maybe the writer was trying to adapt its meaning to the workplace?
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