Better writers think carefully about what tense to use and when they use it. Most novels are written in the past tense. Readers are familiar with this tense because they are used to being told a ...

Most novels are written in the past tense. Readers are more familiar with this tense because they are used to being told a story that has already taken place. For most verbs you add an ‘ed’ at ...

Strictly speaking, there are only two tenses in English: present and past. ASPECT refers to how an event or action is to be viewed with respect to time, rather than to its actual location in time. We ...