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   > "This was my Personal Legend, not yours," the alchemist answered. "But I   
   > wanted to show you that it was possible."   
   > ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
   >Could the alchemist say, "But I wanted to show you that it IS possible." After   
   >all he spoke of universal truth, at least he thought so. But may be English   
   >Grammar demands the Past Tense anyway (was possible)?   
      
   I personally would have used IS, but maybe the author used WAS because they   
   used it in the first part of the quote.   
      
   I was always taught to use the active tense, when possible, unless I am   
   speaking of something that happened in the past.   
      
   Mike   
      
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    þ SLMR 2.1a þ A preposition is what you don't end a sentence with. Um.   
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