• sexy_peach@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    Wasn’t market penetration of win11 going down while win10 going up even though it’s going to be deprecated soon?

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        12 days ago

        English is very limited when it comes to verb forms, so it tends to reuse them for different purposes.

        In this case I don’t think it’s actually being used as past tense, more like a conditional, or hypothetical (not sure those are the right words, but I hope you get what I mean).

        Sure, “isn’t” would probably work too, but I think using “wasn’t” might probably sound better to a native speaker (I wouldn’t know, English is my third language, but I think I’ve seen this form much more often than the present one), though it might depend on specific dialects…