When something is happening now we use the present tense. Now he ‘is’ sticky. Sentences that describe something that’s already happened and use words like ‘was’, are in the past tense.

Now see whether you can change these present tense sentences into the past tense, thinking about the suffixes 'ing' and '-ed' and what they mean. You may have to change more than one word!

One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.

Even as the threads of my life attenuate the meaning I was taught to associate with the words, these patterns of language bind me to a past and present I can neither fully choose nor reject. The ...