[etni] Fw: re: a curiosity
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- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:27:57 +0300
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From: "Adele P. Raemer " <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: a curiosity
I believe she was referring to a BOOK REPORT (she wrote "the plot for a book
report") - NOT the novel, itself.
Personally, I always tell my students to write their reports either in the
present simple (it is a book- the action happens all the time- whenever you
open it, it is there) OR the past tense (as if it has happened already
because you have already read the book, and are looking at it from that
perspective - of events that happened in the past and are finished.) As a
number of you have already mentioned, what is MOST important is the
consistency.
Shabbat Shalom,
Adele
Judy wrote:
> WHAT???? Is Harry Potter written in present simple?
> Huck Finn / War and Peace?????
You wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what is your opinion as to what tense students
> should
> use when writing the plot for a book report? I've accepted it in either
> present or past, as long as the tense is consistent. I just was informed
> by
> another teacher that it should be written only in present tense. What is
> your perspective?
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