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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
date: 2020-05-21 22:19:00
subject: A question about tenses

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Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Dallas Hinton
I read your message from 20.05.2020 21:56

 AS> 3. Later in the same article, Morris writes: "The art of mosaic
 AS> windows is especially an art of the Middle ages."

 AS> 4. Paustovsky writes: "I did not want to shatter this naive belief
 AS> of the village shepherd boy. Maybe because this naivete concealed
 AS> the real truth about the genuine craft of a writer-a truth we do
 AS> not always remember and do not always strive to live by".

It is a Grammar violation that have become generally accepted. A dead
person cannot write -- he wrote.
Another example, "It's me" instead of "It is I".
AFAIR, you used to be the defender of strict Grammar rule observation
and the sworn enemy of informal speech. ;-)

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2020

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