echecsvh
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Hello, I was listening to the Miley Cyrus's song where she says: "All you ever did was wreck me".
The situation is the following: I have seen previously in another page that the verb "be", being a linking verb, acts like a math equation, where what's in the left side of the verb has to be similar to the right side, i.e. x = y. For example: "All you need to do is to think". "to do" matches "to think" in that both are infinitives with "to". So, in the first sentence from the song, is it correct that after "was" there's "wreck" in a simple present form, when the verb that precedes "was" is "did"? Or is it that "was", being in the simple past form, acts as a wildcard or something like it?
The situation is the following: I have seen previously in another page that the verb "be", being a linking verb, acts like a math equation, where what's in the left side of the verb has to be similar to the right side, i.e. x = y. For example: "All you need to do is to think". "to do" matches "to think" in that both are infinitives with "to". So, in the first sentence from the song, is it correct that after "was" there's "wreck" in a simple present form, when the verb that precedes "was" is "did"? Or is it that "was", being in the simple past form, acts as a wildcard or something like it?