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Support our vs Supported our

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Support our' is present tense, while 'supported our' is past tense. The choice between them depends on the timeframe you are referring to.

Last updated: March 25, 2024 • 566 views

Support our

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used in the present tense to indicate ongoing support for something or someone. It is often followed by a noun or pronoun.

Examples:

  • We need to support our local community.
  • Please support our cause by donating.
  • Let's all support our team in the upcoming match.
  • I call on Parliament to support our amendments to reduce the initial step height to 24 cm or to ensure a boarding aid.
  • It is up to us Europeans to accompany and support our partners in this process.
  • I've adjusted it to support our body mass.
  • We have an obligation to support our community.
  • She gave it to us to support our dream.
  • Short of getting real jobs, I don't know what we're supposed to do to support our recording hobby.
  • We need to support our farmers and protect them from unfair competition.
  • I ask you all to support our resolution.
  • No, we were just doing it to support our friends.
  • And my lovely, amazingly strong wife, Mellie, who is here to support our nation tonight.
  • You want to support our children, do it by being in the courtroom.
  • We need more after-school programs, and better-qualified staff to support our teachers, who are overworked and underpaid.
  • The Commission must continue to support our view that without aid and trade preferences to provide the social safety nets there will be never any possibility of delivering equitable growth to the poorest countries.
  • Support our queens by grabbing your date and hitting the dance floor.
  • Victory! Support our boys in Vietnam!
  • We're here to support our friend.
  • I heard she doesn't support our troops.
  • Which is why we very much hope that you'll support our proposal.
  • So subscribe and help support our school.
  • There was too much real evidence to support our suspect in Chicago.

Alternatives:

  • We support our
  • Supporting our
  • Supports our
  • Support our
  • Supported our

Supported our

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used in the past tense to indicate that support was given to something or someone in the past.

Examples:

  • They supported our project from the beginning.
  • She supported our decision to move.
  • The community supported our efforts to clean up the park.
  • The other political groups have not supported our request for postponement.
  • I regret, however, that the Council and the Commission were rigid in refusing to guarantee that the non-refundable VAT would be accountable as a funded expense, although the Court of Auditors had supported our proposal and its rationale.
  • Madam President, I firstly want to thank the Committee on Budgets for having supported our amendments.
  • We supported our Asian partners and we adopted concrete measures, such as the significant commitment on trade and investments which reversed the earlier trend and led to a considerable commercial deficit with our partners.
  • I have seen how strongly Mr Tajani has supported our compromise and I call on Minister Györi to be just as strong in his attempts to persuade the Council to accept the positive elements which the study produces and enshrine them in legislation.
  • Another Englishman with money, power, who supported our cause.
  • A large majority of the personal representatives of the Ecofin Ministers supported our approach.
  • Most WTO members who spoke supported our position on this and rejected unilateralism.
  • In this regard also, Parliament's relevant committee supported our proposal.
  • I thank the Members for having supported our Group's proposals today in full.
  • The money they sent home supported our economies.
  • I would remind Mr Bösch that it was very often the Commission that supported our Parliament's calls for more transparency.
  • I welcome the fact that the Commission has supported our representations on this, but the regulation still needs clarification.
  • Hubr'OK was an ally of Bra'tacs and would have supported our desire to reform the Jaffa nation with democracy.
  • EU members responded to my appeals and supported our efforts to overcome the difficulties by sending, among other things, an investment mission to Korea.
  • Mr President, I would like first to thank everyone who worked to prepare this important discharge for 2006 and supported our rapporteur.
  • I supported our group's opinion, however, on the use of colour coding in the labelling of food.
  • That is why the Committee on Fisheries unanimously supported our feisty colleague James Nicholson.
  • We were delighted that the rapporteur saw the error of her ways and supported our way of thinking.
  • We had interpreters, locals, and they were murdered sometimes for helping us, just to show what would happen to Afghans who supported our troops.

Alternatives:

  • Support our
  • We supported our
  • Supporting our
  • Supports our
  • Support our

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