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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

The tenseㅡthe truth or a natural phenomenon

In his book Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, Copernicus insisted that the earth revolved around the sun and that the sun was the real center of the universe.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]

I think as telling the truth or a natural phenomenon, we should use the present tense.
And so, I'd like to know why the author use the past tense.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I think as telling the truth or a natural phenomenon, we should use the present tense Not necessarily; that is simply an option here. And they aren't truths, you might have noticed. park sang joon And so, I'd like to know why the author use the past tense.

— Mister Micawber

  • park sang joon I think as telling the truth or a natural phenomenon, we should use the present tense Not necessarily; that is simply an option here.
  • And they aren't truths, you might have noticed.
  • park sang joon And so, I'd like to know why the author use the past tense.
  • The author performed the usual, unremarkable regression of the dependent verbs with the main verb ('insisted').
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park sang joonI think as telling the truth or a natural phenomenon, we should use the present tense
Not necessarily; that is simply an option here. And they aren't truths, you might have noticed.
park sang joonAnd so, I'd like to know why the author use the past tense.
The author performed the usual, unremarkable regression
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