By Present tenses

Re: A question about Style

Hello, mr. Micawber Looks like I have to provide some further explanations. In a traditional text adventure the player enters text commands which are parsed/interpreted by the game's engine, and gets the result in the form a textual description. In the example above the commands were marked...

A question about Style

Hello everybody! Probably, you already know of my infamous venture —the translation of an adventure game called Star Heritage. Below I'll repeat part of my answer to Huevos, whom I shall thank for accidently reminding me of the problem that I now ask you to help me with: «I have tried to...

Re: grammar help!

Hi guys, Some points of disagreement as listed below for argument sake:- Should it be "There is a tour"? Please advise. Yes - Should be "There will be a tour" since the message appears to refer to the next one. No, use present tense because the writer is describing an event...

Re: What troubles you now? What does trouble you now?

Hi Khoff,Yes, I think that that sentence is not grammatically correct. Because in most questions what is followed by words like does, did, was, were etc. Can you tell me of any other sentence where what is simply followed by present tense form? That will help. Thank you.

Re: need to back-shift?

Hi Ant_222,I think it may be futile to find out why. Sometimes, language is just the way it is. A language evolves and the reasons why it is now used this way are long forgotten. We can only guess, just like a detective arriving at a crime scene and try to find out what happened in the past. ...

conditional

Hi, Are these all examples of the first conditional? If a if-clause is in the present tense, then any modal verbs can be used and it would still be a first conditional sentence? A zero conditional sentence is the one only states general rules and can't use modal verbs? All first...

Re: need to back-shift?

Amy: «Ant, I think you need to reread GG's post. After "I thought," do NOT use the simple present tense.» I have read this commandment (sic!) about a million times in about a hundread threads, and all that in the past two or three days. In my previous post I didn't call it...

Re: need to back-shift?

Ant, I think you need to reread GG's post. After "I thought," do NOT use the simple present tense. However, you could use the simple present tense in a direct quote:"The spider is an insect," I thought (to myself)."He is married," I thought (to myself).

Re: need to back-shift?

Can I expess my frustration as well? NO! Use the PAST TENSE! Present tense is WRONG!! wow... I feel much better now. Saves me a trip to the shrink I recently realized I do make this mistake unconciously...no no subconciously is the right wrod.

Re: need to back-shift?

Thank you, everyone. After all those resounding responses, it would be hard for anyone to go on using a past (whoops, I might have started it again -- that was a slip) present tense after the phrase 'I thought'. Got cha! Loud and clear. Thank you. Those are the kind of answers I would...