Writing Tip 7: Using Present Tense and Past Tense in Your Introduction
Inside a single citation sentence, two different verbs can each independently take present or past tense — and which you choose signals how settled the finding is.
What you will learn
- The two tense choices inside one citation sentence: the reporting verb, and the finding itself
- What a present-tense reporting verb signals about how settled a finding is
- How this differs from the related but separate present-perfect rule (course 6)
Free, self-paced, one sitting. Finish the quiz and you get a certificate.
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