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It's about this
passage:"インターネットの安全のための仕事などをするＩＰＡによると、銀行やクレジットカードの会社など、本当にある会社の名前を **使った**
、うそのメールが多くなっています。"

First of all, "本当にある会社の名前を使った" is modifying "うそのメール" but the comma is written
for more visibility, isn't it ?

And to follow, my main question, why the verb 使う is in the past tense ?
"うそのメールが多くなっています" is in the present and so the usage of false name is
continuous too no ? Why it is not "本当にある会社の名前を使う" or "本当にある会社の名前を使っている"

Thank you
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grammar conjugations relative-clauses relative-tense
Why the past tense is used in this sentence?
> 「インターネットの安全のための仕事などをするＩＰＡによると、銀行やクレジットカードの会社など、本当にある会社の名前を **使った**
> 、うそのメールが多くなって **います** 。」

In this sentence, the "main" verb is 「います」 or the whole verb phrase 「多くなっています」
at the very end. **That is the only verb whose tense determines the tense of
the sentence**.

That means that you should not really be calling 「使った」 the "past tense" only
because there is a 「た」 in it. As I stated above, 「使った」 has no affect on the
tense of the sentence.

Consider the English sentence (first of the two):

> "I **am eating** a hamburger **made** with real Kobe beef. It's heavenly!"

The tense of the sentence itself is clearly the present progressive as the
verb here is "am eating". If so, why use "made"? Is using "made" there
incorrect?

I know very little English, but I still know that it is 100% correct,
grammatical and natural to use "made" in that sentence. Or am I deluded?

Thus, 「使った」 is the most natural verb tense choice in the original sentence.
「使っている」 would sound quite awkward if not totally incorrect.
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