Boy, I was reading some of my posts and I really have a problem with tenses! I switch from past to present tense constantly. I remember a teacher in high school getting on me for that. He made me re-write an entire short story because I used three different tenses.
The funny thing is that I had "recycled" that story from a couple years ago. And I had actually WON a contest with that story and got actual prize money! It was some idealistic story and the theme was "Justice - the Roots of Peace". I rember using the past tense in the first paragraph, the present tense in the second paragraph and the future tense in the third paragraph. I thought it was a pretty cool literary device (well, as far as sixth graders can be literary!).
Apparently, though, this didn't sit well with my high school teacher! So sorry if my inconsistent tenses bug anyone else!
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I do this all the time too. Some thing for me- teachers were not too fond of it!
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