@AIQ I think the answer given is the correct interpretation. The word pandemic becomes the adjective describing the type of government currently in place. As also described in the comment about wartime government.

The tree had fallen or the tree was fallen (what's a difference between these two)

Hi AIQ are you there

@CowperKettle is it anwer to my question

@ManishkumarKumar

"The tree was fallen" is wrong ...

@GWarner I am not sure if that is correct. In "wartime" the presence of "time" gives us a hint about the "government during a war". But in pandemic government, that hint is not clear

@AIQ Or very old, about early 19th century

@CowperKettle It could be that, yes. I think a full sentence would make it clear ...

I have read many sentences like this eg-The shop was opened (Is this also wrong)

I have taught at that time shop was opened or at that time tree was fallen down

Two people were "sitting on a tree" in this case, it would imply that the tree was on the ground—i.e., that it had fallen or been cut down.

"had fallen" is fine ... but "was fallen" sounds very strange.

Please give me some more explanation about this

Is it write to say "The tree was fallen on the ground" and is it equivalent to "The tree had fallen"

Sorry I wror

Sorry I wrote "write" instead of right by mistake

> Did you ever notice that the ‘ea’ in tea and pea are silent?

I don't get this

@CowperKettle Interesting. The "wh" in "why" is also silent, pretty much.

@CowperKettle "Can I talk to Bill?"

@CowperKettle The letters T and P are pronounced . . . well, "tea" and "pea"

Ah!

Hello guys. One quick question (just to check, thought it fits there better than the site) - when we write in past tense, the third conditional stays the same? I mean "If I had, I would've ..."

By past tense I mean writing a novel in past tense.

@ManishkumarKumar The tree was fallen on the ground is a passive construction, and it says that someone did the falling to the tree in the past. But fall is an intransitive verb, you say A tree falls or A tree fell; you don't say that someone falls a tree, it makes no sense, right? The relevant term here is transitivity. I suggest you score yourself a copy of an English textbook that explains basic constructions involving tenses.

You might also be confused by the verb fell which is transitive and different from fall: if you fell a tree, you cut it down. So you'd say The tree was felled, and yes, fell is a regular verb (fell, felled, felled), unlike fall (fall, fell, fallen).

@Dmitrii Nope, it's If I'd (=had) had, I would've..., although If I had, I would've... is also valid, but means something else: If I had money, I would've bought a car means if I were generally (now and before and always) rich I would've bought the car at some point in the past, while If I'd had money, I would've bought a car means if I had had money at some point in the past, I would've bought the car (around that same time in the past).

@AIQ Of course it's correct; it's obvious without even reading the rest of the text. It's like the Trump administration (= the administration during Trump's presidency). However, I would say it's more of a coined thing rather than something you'd hear often (i.e., that exact phrase you have quoted), but syntactically it's a commonly employed construction.