Verb tenses

Basics of writingVerb tenses

Verbs with the same form in present and past tenses and past participle

From Rick: In my editing I sometimes encounter a case where the author gets a verb’s past tense wrong. Here are three errors I’ve encountered a few times. These are incorrect: He broadcasted his location over the radio. The weatherman

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Getting tense over tenses (Verb tenses–Part 3)

From Rick: I’ve done two previous posts on this subject (references at end of this post), but I’m going to approach it again a little differently than before. Why do verb tenses seem to confound writers so much? That’s a

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