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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Tense of past+now+forever
Is it okay to mix in an occasional present tense sentence in past tense narration? One would never say "Gold was yellow." Gold IS yellow, always was, always will be.
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Your final sentence is good.
- Your final sentence is good.
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The sentence's goodness is not really the question. In general, can a literary novel writer drop in an occasional present tense sentence in the middle of past tense first person narration without ******* the read off? For example: I have written several was and were sentences. Then I wish to describe a quality of an item of the past, but I wish to put in context as something that still is as it
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