When something is happening now we use the present tense. Now he ‘is’ sticky. Sentences that describe something that’s already happened and use words like ‘was’, are in the past tense.

This is because stories were traditionally told using the past tense. This made the narrator sound as if they were narrating events from a distance, instead of being 'present' amongst the action.

The Supreme Court must uphold the Places of Worship Act amid increasing attacks on secularism.

This is Present Tense, a series on mindfulness for busy people (read: all of us). Whether you're at work, on a walk, or hanging with loved ones, mindfulness can help you stay connected and engaged ...

The grammatical category of tense in English is a bipolar relation based on the feature [±Past]. [+Past] (the so-called present tense) refers to any eventuality that occurs before the speech event ...

The abstract is usually in the past tense due to it showing what has already been studied. Example: “This study was conducted at the Iyarina Field School, and within the indigenous Waorani community ...

The clauses above bear examples of a common verb tense: the present perfect continuous. This is the tense that indicates an action ...

Trends in Classics, Vol. 14, Issue. 2, p. 271. Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer ...

There is a misconception that all verbs in a paragraph should be in the same tense. The choice of the appropriate verb tense depends on context and meaning.