Thursday, November 30, 2017

idioms - "It's time ... 'verb'/'verb-ed' ..."



It's time colleges helped you compare apples to apples.


(The Boston Globe)




If the time is a present moment, why does the journalist use "help" in the past tense? Or is "helped" subjunctive?




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