Hi Alexander -- on Aug 10 2019 at 12:33, you wrote:
horribly cumbersome way of saying, as you suggested, "used to
connected".
I should have said "used to connect" ... dunno where my mind was!
Why? We have the exact time in the past (500 years ago). So, we can
use the Past Indefinite (the Simple Past) if we speak of the real
fact that the bridge connected two points at that time.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the presence of a land bridge x years
ago is still the subject of some debate.
Cheers... Dallas
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