Saturday, February 20, 2016

Local Revision: Tense Usage

yjyoun, "Clock Fantasy Fantastic Future" 15/12/20 via pixabay
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Present Tense
Stretches
Is radiated
Totals
Begging
Tower
Choosing
Rely
Entering
Helping
Harness
Knowing
Looking
Becomes
Talking
Become
Speaks
Start
Works
Touts
Using
Generate
Allows
Catering
Set
Allowing
Exceed
Beg
Protest
Pleading
Kill
Continue
Abide
Go
Grapples
Shoulder
Install
Noting
Claims
Outweigh
Bringing
Making
Pay
Disagrees
Likens
Appears
Gives
Cites
Asks
Running
States
Adjusting
Think
Pinpointing
Understands
Muscle
Making
Thinking
Believes
Expand
Backing
Share
Accusing
Disagrees
Stating
Rebukes
Saying
Brings
Making

Future Tense
To be harnessed
To gain
Be blamed
To expand
To sell
To be re-evaluated

Past Tense
Allowed
Tapped
Wasted
Forgoes
Moved
Accomplished
Proven
Fitted
Soared
Reached
Gathered
Written
Decided
Moved
Incurred
Proved
Realized
Ceased
Cut
Put
Said
Claimed
Gotten
Asked
Asked
Found
Ran

Present tense is the tense most prevalent in my draft. The heavy use of present tense reads as if the action is unfolding before the reader's eyes. The shifts between tenses in my draft make sense: the future tenses are located in a section that foreshadows events in the future, while the past tense sections covered events in the past.

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