By Past tenses, Essays

You had too many spaces between Leet and ","My grandmother, Julie Lovins, put everything on the line for her job, including her life. She worked for the Leet Psychiatric Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, and flew to various locations with Dr. Leet, a psychiatrist, to help patients. ...

The Thing I Will Forget The thing I will never forget in my whole life is when my dad passed away. Back in the Philippines I had lots of experiences, such as pain, sadness, loneliness, happiness, etc. because all those things happened to me while I grew up. The most painful thing that I...

In the essay, when we refer to the previous paragraph, I am not sure if we should use Past tense or Present tense? Example: In the paragraph2.2 the detail was not covered all design.

Hoa Thai wrote: Belly wrote: Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the...

Belly wrote:Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the other uses the past...

The building of the new missile still has current relevance, so the original tense of the announcement is retained in the retelling: "We have built a new missile." Iran announced that it had built a new missile. (Correct. Can be used for all time, i.e., this can be said a thousand years...

I think when we write an essay about literature, we use 'present tense' no matter if the literature itself is in past tenseNot at all.And you are not creating reported speech when writing an essay; you are narrating the story.Do your example this way:Ben always remembers his glory in high school:...

I think when we write an essay about literature, we use 'present tense' no matter if the literature itself is in past tense. But for example, "Ben suddenly recalled his high school life. When he was in the ninth grade, he was very popular. But now, he was not. He was such an ordinary man. No one...

Ghai_prince13 wrote:14.1 topic:::: 14.1. To you there have arrived friends from other city (Sounds redundant. Rephrase. I can't even understand what this means). Simultaneously, your close friend invites you to go together with it him/her on rest for some days: 1) Explain to it a situation why...

Tinaflurrs wrote:This is an assigned letter to my teacher for a portfolio assignment. What I am posting is only a portion of what I have written, just want your feedback for mechanical errors. Any great writer possesses the ability to obtain passion, creativity, and style that shapes a great...