[etni] Fw: re: a curiosity
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- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:07:05 +0300
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From: "Barry Silverberg" <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: a curiosity
Several novels have been written in pres simple;
barry
Adele wrote:
> 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.
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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