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Subject:RE: a question about verb tense/is or was? From:"Rich, Charles" <crich -at- FSC -dot- Follett -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:44:06 -0600
*Was* is proper in this case because the other verbs in the sentence are
past tense. To use *is* would be a shift in tense, which is why it should
sound funny to you.
Charles T. Rich
Technical Writer
Product Development
Follett Software Company
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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