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narrative
0 Dear Sir/Madam 02 br
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00 we often see in narrative formats some sentences like "she 01 font 00 sees 02 font 00 her mother 01 font 00 come out 02 font 00 ......." 02 br
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00 while we are telling the story occured in the past 02 br
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00 the change of the tense to present is comprehensible but the consistency between them are not. 02 br
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00 (at least to me) 02 br
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00 I looked up several grammar books but I couldn't find any help or useful topic on that. 02 br
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00 any suggestions?please. 0-
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00 we often see in narrative formats some sentences like "she 01 font 00 sees 02 font 00 her mother 01 font 00 come out 02 font 00 ......." 02 br
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00 while we are telling the story occured in the past 02 br
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00 the change of the tense to present is comprehensible but the consistency between them are not. 02 br
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00 (at least to me) 02 br
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00 I looked up several grammar books but I couldn't find any help or useful topic on that. 02 br
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00 any suggestions?please. 0-
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0 come out 02 br 00 is infinitive 02 br 00 and it's tense independent, to some extent 0-
- 0 come out 02 br 00 is infinitive 02 br 00 and it's tense independent, to some extent 0-
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0 come out 02 br
00 is infinitive 02 br
00 and it's tense independent, to some extent 0-
00 is infinitive 02 br
00 and it's tense independent, to some extent 0-
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0 Yes, but the 01 b 00 sees 02 b 00 is not. It's clearly present tense. 02 br
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00 Yes, sometimes when we relate a story, we shift to the present tense to make it more vivid for our listeners. When that happens, tenses seems to fall all over the place. From the point of time in the story, some things are actually in the past, but some (although they are past f
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00 Yes, sometimes when we relate a story, we shift to the present tense to make it more vivid for our listeners. When that happens, tenses seems to fall all over the place. From the point of time in the story, some things are actually in the past, but some (although they are past f
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