You know how the joke begins: “A guy walks into a bar…” But wait, for you to know the punch line, this has to be past tense. So wouldn’t it be, “A guy walked into a bar…?” It could be. But usually it ...
What do John Updike's Rabbit, Run, Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat, Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing have in common? They are all modern classics, and they are all ...
Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances Adrian Chiles’s article concerning the use of the present tense in ...
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