[There is a sound at the door.]
A: [color=red]Do you hear something?
B: Yes. What was that?
=====> Why not “Did you hear something”?
Thanks.
Presumably because the sound is still going on when A starts to speak, but has stopped by the time B speaks.
Either that or the speakers just weren’t being particularly careful about their tenses.
Hi Ruifeng,
I agree that ‘did you …?’ would make better sense in that dialogue in view of the response ‘B’ gives using ‘was’.
Alan