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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wording
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:54:57 -0600
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On 9/1/03 Patty Gibson wrote:

>what IS for me, is what WAS for them.

Is was if it isn't as it was.
Is is if it still is as it once was or until it isn't any more.
Is will be if it still is what it always has been.
... or something like that.

Sometimes when I'm writing narrative, I place myself in the past and write from that perspective. Thus I say, "In 1823 Jesse Bean is found selling land to Susannah ... by 1830 he has five children and in 1840 he is in Rowan County ...". I am either breaking rules, taking license, or writing in a very advanced style. I prefer to believe the latter <g>.


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