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   Message 3,163 of 4,347   
   Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin   
   A question about tenses   
   22 May 20 14:23:44   
   
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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   >  AS> I see. It reminds me of a dialog line from a British horror   
   >  AS> story, where a woman excalims "I forgot he was   
   >  AS> vegeterinan!", when she realies she has prepared no   
   >  AS> vegetaranian meal for her new acquaintance, who, by all   
   >  AS> means, is vegetarian still.   
   >   
   > A story can be told in the present or in the past. But you should   
   > choose. If you put "It reminds me of..." you imply past events   
   > and you should continue:   
   >   
   > ...a dialog line from a British horror story, where a woman   
   > exclaimed, "I forgot he IS a vegeterinan!" when she realised she   
   > had prepared no vegetaranian meal for her new acquaintance...   
      
   Hey! The phrase "I forgot he was vegetarian!" (with `was' and no   
   article before `vegetarian') is a quote from the book! Do insist on   
   correcting the language of Ramsey Campbell???   
      
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