Simple present?
Hello, could you please help me with the following sentence:
"Caroline St John Brooks, a reporter for The Sunday Times, visits Manchester to see how new students settle down to university life. "
This is the introductory sentence to a present tense exercise in a school book.
Is "visits Manchester" the correct tense? Shouldn't it read "is visiting" ? If "visits" is the correct form could you please explain to me why?
Thank you for your help!
Stephan
Top answer
The Simple Present is often used to tell a story or narrate a chain of events. In addition, newspapers often use it to describe what a story is about. eg A man walks into a room.
- The Simple Present is often used to tell a story or narrate a chain of events.
- In addition, newspapers often use it to describe what a story is about.
- eg A man walks into a room.
- He sits down.
- He opens his book and starts to read.
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The Simple Present is often used to tell a story or narrate a chain of events. In addition, newspapers often use it to describe what a story is about.
eg A man walks into a room. He sits down. He opens his book and starts to read.
eg Our reporter visits the scene of yesterday's bank robbery.
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So the sentence doesn't sound wrong to you? Or do you think "is visiting" is better or equally valid?
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This sentence is the key to solving your mystery. It is quite common to provide sentences for beginners which later they may discover are not the most natural sentences in the world. We say in these cases that these sentences, even if not
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