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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Two sentence

If two sentences within a paragraph have a different tense, is it mixed tense?

Example: "She is being seen by the doctor now. She will be sent home afterwards."
  

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I urge all learners to practice, at least, a minimum level of common courtesy when posting their thread requesting forhelp. A "please" and "thanks" will go a long way. For your questions: Present passive tense Present active tense "She is being seen by the doctor now" = The doctor is tending her.

— Goodman

  • I urge all learners to practice, at least, a minimum level of common courtesy when posting their thread requesting forhelp.
  • A "please" and "thanks" will go a long way.
  • For your questions: Present passive tense Present active tense "She is being seen by the doctor now" = The doctor is tending her.
  • At this very moment, now.
  • " = If she has no serious problem, the doctor will send her home" I don't consider them mixed tense; rather, mixed conditions.
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I urge all learners to practice, at least, a minimum level of common courtesy when posting their thread requesting forhelp. A "please" and "thanks" will go a long way.

For your questions:

Present passive tense Present active tense

"She is being seen by the doctor now" = The doctor is tending her. At this very m
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I'm not familiar with the terminology "mixed tense". Different tenses are uses in communications all the time. Can you define the term, perhaps as your textbook or as your teacher has defined it?

If it simply means the use of different tenses, then certainly you've given an example of "mixed tense". It's hard to communicate at all without "mixed tense".

If it means a faulty u
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