04-Oct-2003, 20:01
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Originally Posted by Ryan What I have understood is this:
When summarizing a story, we usually use the present tense. But when we report the words of a character, we change the tense to the relevant one, e.g. present to past, past to past perfect.
Am I right? | That looks good to me.
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