query: Can I use a present-tense verb when writing about a past event?
positive_passages.docid: 44449
positive_passages.text: What is the name for the grammatical figure, where the present tense is substituted for a past event?
negative_passages.docid: 100002
negative_passages.text: Past Simple vs. Present Perfect
negative_passages.docid: 119011
negative_passages.text: tense and time and composite sentence
negative_passages.docid: 100914
negative_passages.text: present perfect + past simple in the same sentence
negative_passages.docid: 14620
negative_passages.text: How to correctly use the present perfect tense
negative_passages.docid: 47451
negative_passages.text: Present Perfect or simple past?
negative_passages.docid: 1030
negative_passages.text: "Now is the time" followed by past tense verb
negative_passages.docid: 55425
negative_passages.text: Tense for an event that occurs as you read it
negative_passages.docid: 93683
negative_passages.text: Using Past Simple (verb to be) for Unreal (Counterfactual) Past Situations
negative_passages.docid: 149189
negative_passages.text: "I have been 'verb-ing'" vs. "I had been 'verb-ing'"
negative_passages.docid: 85473
negative_passages.text: Past participle used as a noun?
negative_passages.docid: 12613
negative_passages.text: How to use "had" correctly in a past perfect paragraph?
negative_passages.docid: 116763
negative_passages.text: Is the usage of tenses correct in this sentence - "two days had passed since she had last eaten or slept"
negative_passages.docid: 132807
negative_passages.text: What is the historic present tense?
negative_passages.docid: 153687
negative_passages.text: What tense should I use to describe something in the past but probably is still true?
negative_passages.docid: 10566
negative_passages.text: Differences in meaning when the verb tense changes (headlines)
negative_passages.docid: 67080
negative_passages.text: Verb agreement for something that was discussed in the past, while the issue still exists in the present