Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses ... the past, present or future will really enhance the way you are able to relay information to others. How to use verbs in sentences.

The abstract is usually in the past tense due to it showing what has already been studied. Example: “This study was conducted at the Iyarina Field School, and within the indigenous Waorani community ...

Sometimes a fiction writer may use the present tense to make their writing more immediate, as in this example from The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: ‘It’s hard being left behind.

Use the present tense to express general truths ... and place it in the subject position. For example, should you write "The preprocessor sorts the two arrays" or "The two arrays are sorted ...

Some will remember that last week’s column was on how to be an economical writer. This week, I will explain some errors in ...