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Vsuresh Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Verb Tense

Hi

Please tell me if the highlighted verb forms are correct.

Hurricane buff and professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT Kerry Emanuel asserted for over 20 years that global warming breeds more frequent and stronger storms and he shot to prominence just one month before Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when he delivered the "final proof" that global warming causes extreme weather events and wrecks livelihoods.


Here though past tense seems to be consistent with the main clause, simple present sounds OK as they denote a scientific idea.

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I agree with you as regards the present tense being used, as it is a scientific idea.

— Tamguatlay

  • I agree with you as regards the present tense being used, as it is a scientific idea.
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I agree with you as regards the present tense being used, as it is a scientific idea.
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vsuresh Here, though the past simple tense seems to would be consistent with the main clause, the simple present simple sounds OK too as they denote it's being used to describe a scientific fact. idea.
That's right.
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Thank you,tamguatlay.
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teechrvsuresh Here, though the past simple tense seems to would be consistent with the main clause, the simple present simple sounds OK too as they denote it's being used to describe a scientific fact. idea.
Thank you very much,teechr.
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vsuresh simple present sounds OK
Yes, it's a kind of time-independent axiom such as:
The earth revolves around the sun.
Vegetables are good for you.
Dogs make good pets.
etc.
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Thank you AlpheccaStars.
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