Hello,
I am familiar with the form:
say "[The noun] [are] already used..."
… but how can we phrase something in the past tense using tokens? [Were] doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks,
G.
Hello,
I am familiar with the form:
say "[The noun] [are] already used..."
… but how can we phrase something in the past tense using tokens? [Were] doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks,
G.
You can change the tense of tokens by saying:
“now the story tense is past tense;”
Then it will work.
Note that changing the story tense will affect all verbs, everywhere. If you only want it in this case, you can specify the tense:
say "[They] [adapt the verb are in the past tense] here yesterday, but [they] [are] not here now."
If you end up using this a lot, you can make a new substitution.
To say were: say adapt the verb are in the past tense.
...
say "[They] [were] here..."
Yes, Draconis, this is what I was looking for!
Craiglocke, what you suggest looks a bit scary!