Present tense

“The piano music becomes rapidly more passionate, and then breaks off suddenly in mid-phrase” (Stoppard, 85). Immediately before this quote, Stoppard writes that there are now four hands present on the piano, rather than the usual two hands. The music became more intense over time, because the plot in the play is currently uprising to a main event. Thomasina mentions how her mother, Lady Croom, is in love with Count Zelinsky, who happens to be the man playing the piano. After Thomasina confesses

perspective (“I saw”, “I did”). Check with your instructor to determine whether you can use “I” when telling your story. *Verb Tense: Reporting vs. Reflecting The events of most narratives are told in past tense: “As I hiked, I felt the warm sun on my back.” Use present tense when reflecting on the events: “Now I know how unprepared I was”. Notice the change in tense in this sentence as the writer reflects on the past event, from the

seconds time, I drop the photograph to the sand at my feet, walking away. It’s already lying there, twelve seconds into the future.” Readers are subjected to the ways in which Dr. Manhattan sees and experiences time, which is seeing the past, the present, and the future each at the same time. In panel eight, Dr. Manhattan states, “I am going to look at the stars”. The stars are meant to represent the photograph he has been focused on this entire page. To expand, readers are regarding the photograph

Time is “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole” (Oxford Dictionary). David Mitchell uses his novel Cloud Atlas to explore this complicated concept gravely. Even through the way the novel is laid out (in layers with only half of each story given at first), each story noticeably intersects and interacts with shared characters – either in the flesh or the reincarnations of them. Similarly, this layout exhibits an attempt at postmodernist

constant change in past and present tense verbs. "2. Verb tense. Truthful people usually  describe historical events in the past tense. Deceptive people sometimes refer to past events  as if the events were occurring in the present. Describing past events using the present  tense suggests that people are rehearsing the events in their mind. Investigators should pay  particular attention to points in a narrative at which the speaker shifts to inappropriate  present tense usage." We see this in even the first seven statements in Jay’s interview

that is was the officer that conducted the investigation writing the report and not a separate person recounting details and possibly missing facts. The second rule to writing is writing in the past tense. The events in the report have already happened, and therefore should be written in the past tense. By writing this way, you will develop consistency, therefore creating a report that is professional and easy to read. The third rule is to use an active voice in your report. This style of writing

(or Tommo as he is called by his friends and family) in the build up towards WW1. It talks of his family in their ups and downs including his Father’s death. We follow Tommo in the past tense as he reflects upon his time up to the trenches. In the extract of pages between page 153 and 155 (which is in the present tense), we see Tommo attacked by a gas cloud whilst writing to his mother. He is saved of his life by a German attacker (or “Fritz”). He is then given a bill of clear health upon inspection

From my reading of both the ‘Grasmere Journals’ written by Dorothy Wordsworth and also the poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ written by William Wordsworth, I believe that there is a strong relationship between the two. I think that both William and his sister Dorothy experienced the same relationship with the Daffodil’s they saw. The only difference is that William expressed his experience through poetry while Dorothy expressed hers through diary entries. From the evidence we have with the dates

Robert Frost once said, “Nothing gold can stay”. This idea was clearly elucidated in F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, a novel focused on Jay Gatsby, a famously wealthy young man and his never-changing love for Daisy. Set in the 1920s, the thought of moving west continued to prosper as many Americans hoped to gain wealth and have an opportunity to set their own path to greatness. However, many struggled in achieving their American Dreams and constantly wish for a time when America could revert

the third paragraph in particular, the sentences were too complex so having originally written them as one complex sentence in the pluperfect tense, I broke them down in to one point per sentence and put them in the present tense so that it would be easier to understand. I also changed some of the verbs that were in the present tense into the imperative form because it made the phonology sharper and clearer for the audience to hear. One example is in the sentence "After you