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echo: english_tutor
to: ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
from: ANTON SHEPELEV
date: 2020-05-18 15:23:00
subject: A question about tenses

Alexander Koryagin - Dallas Hinton:

> -----Beginning of the citation-----
> In one of his better tales, of which the original version was
> rejected by the miopical editors, Clark Ashton Smith presents a
> secred record made by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished
> a devil that had come to earth from a comet. The setting -- a
> fictional province in medieval France:
> ----- The end of the citation -----
>
> In one of his better tales, of which the original version was
> rejected by the mYopic editors, Clark Ashton Smith PRESENTED a
> sAcred record made by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished
> a DEMON (or THE DEVIL), that had come to earth from a comet.

`secred' means secret and sacred (joking). As to your amendment of
`presents' to `presented', I disagree. I also disagree about you:
proposal to use the definite article with `devil' and to add a
comma before `that', e.g.:

When I went out yesterday to dispose of garbage, I encountered a
cat that had no tail.

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