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Edit Post #8481 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Question Shift in tense and starting a historical account with the present tense
I was just writing a historical overview of a battle and decided I'd write the introduction in the present tense--the present tense being a narration of a specific event during the war. I just realized though that in the last sentence, I shifted from there to describing how the events are perceived ...
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