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Old 23-Feb-2008, 21:40
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Default Re: Story - pls. look through for mistakes, right register

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Originally Posted by verso View Post
You could write it this way:

"Trevor and Emma are an elderly married couple. They have been living alone in a small town near London."

or you could write it this way:

"Trevor and Emma were an elderly couple. They had been living alone in a small town near London."

Just try and pay more attention to your tense-shifting.
Thank you very much for your quick replay.

I have one more question:

So, if I use

"Trevor and Emma were an elderly couple. They had been living alone in a small town near London."

Does it mean that they died, they are not alive now, at time of speaking ??
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