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Phxsunstoon Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Tense Consistency

Examples:

1." The action started in the past and continues into the present moment."

2. "The action was finished at some earlier time but affects the present."

In formal writing, if I was writing a paragraph where the primary tense was past, would you considered this incorrect because the tense switched from past to present in the same sentence?  

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phxsunstoon In formal writing, if I was writing a paragraph where the primary tense was past, would you considered this incorrect because the tense switched from past to present in the same sentence? No.

— Mister Micawber

  • phxsunstoon In formal writing, if I was writing a paragraph where the primary tense was past, would you considered this incorrect because the tense switched from past to present in the same sentence?
  • No.
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phxsunstoonIn formal writing, if I was writing a paragraph where the primary tense was past, would you considered this incorrect because the tense switched from past to present in the same sentence?
No.
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Can you please explain to me why those sentences in the example would be considered correct, while sentence like this: "She intended to play for the team during the upcoming season, but then she blows out her knee" is considered incorrect in writing? I am having a really hard time understand the shifting of the tense.

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Both 'intend' and 'blow out' clearly finished in the past, but 'continue' and 'affect' act also in the present.
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