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   Hi, Dallas Hinton! -> Anton Shepelev   
   I read your message from 18.05.2020 00:11   
      
      
    AS>> Yes, no factual knowledge, but then do you explain the Past Simple   
    AS>> tense in: "demon was held captive, which would answer the   
    AS>> interrogation of sorcerers." If the writer had still had the ring   
    AS>> in his posession at the time of writing, whould not he have   
    AS>> written "... demon is held captive, which will answer..."?   
      
    DH> The writer is writing about events which have happened (past). We   
    DH> have no idea what (if anything) has transpired since. In any case,   
    DH> to suddenly shift from past to present would be quite jarring to   
    DH> the reader.   
      
   BTW, Anton used such a time shift in his question. I was also told many   
   times not to do such a thing in one sentence or even in one paragraph.   
      
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   In one of his better tales, of which the original version was rejected   
   by the miopical editors, Clark Ashton Smith presents a secred record   
   made by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished a devil that had come   
   to earth from a comet. The setting -- a fictional province in medieval   
   France:   
   ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
   In one of his better tales, of which the original version was rejected   
   by the mYopic editors, Clark Ashton Smith PRESENTED a sAcred record made   
   by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished a DEMON (or THE DEVIL),   
   that had come to earth from a comet.   
      
      
   Bye, Dallas!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2020   
      
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