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In narration, stay in one tense. "She had green eyes" is fine, because your entire story is in the past tense — the "present-past," if that makes sense. If she had green eyes as a child but has bro...
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2019-12-08T03:51:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
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In narration, stay in one tense. "She had green eyes" is fine, because your entire story is in the past tense — the "present-past," if that makes sense. If she had green eyes as a child but has brown eyes in the present of your story, you might say "She used to have green eyes, but now she had brown." Still past tense, but _used to have_ indicates it's a state of being in the past which is not currently true.
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2014-11-04T14:46:53Z (about 10 years ago)
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