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|    Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin    |
|    A question about tenses    |
|    22 May 20 14:23:44    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 5ec7b63c       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5ec6d8f2       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20200418       EID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15       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???              ---         * Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 221/0 6 226/30 227/114 702       SEEN-BY: 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/1120 1634 2100 5138 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 240/8001 8002 8005 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003 313/41 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 331/313 333/808 335/206 364 370 342/200 382/147       SEEN-BY: 2454/119 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 221/6 335/364 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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