By Interviews, Present tenses

How about when one is wirting in reported speech, as in recording the notes of a meeting?Would you then wirte "The chairperson suggested that the committee liaised with relevent organisations.." or should the present tense "liaise" be used as it was a proposal from the...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

The scene is a canal in Venice. A barge nudges the pavement; an artichoke salesman deftly trims his wares. Houses and tourists shimmer upside-down in the water. Or they would if I were being a travel writer. As a travel presenter, all I can see is the muzzle of a camera, the crate of tomatoes...

Hello Sextus, 1) I think that's fine. (I get the impression from what you've written that Sextus E. used the simile without fully working out the implications. Is that indeed your conclusion?) 2) It's true that some native speakers would use the present here. Let me try out the possibilities...

Please look at the sentences below and let me know if I have used the past/present tense (where I have put the * marks) correctly. 1. Lily: I saw Mary last week. Jessica: Mary? *Wasn't* she the one who sat next to you last year? Lily: No, that *was* Maggy. Mary *was* the one who dropped out of...