26 Feb 14 21:06, Paul Quinn wrote to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
    ak>> in chapter 4 of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" I read:   
      
    ak>> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    ak>>     Harry followed his gaze up the carefully tended front path and   
    ak>> felt his heart sink. The front door was hanging off its hinges.   
    ak>> -----The end of the citation-----   
      
    ak>> Why sink -- not sank?   
      
    PQ> It's probably a tense thing.  It has to sink at least once for him to   
    PQ> be able to say at a later time that it sank.  :)   
      
   In other words, present tense vs past tense...   
      
      
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