Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Question on tense

When talking about Rebecca and Maxim's marriage is that past tense because it was past tense in the book or do you still right it as the present?

1 comment:

  1. It depends what the context you're talking about the marriage in. If you were to say something like "Maxim and the narrator get married and then go on their honeymoon before going to Manderley." Then that's present tense.

    But if you were to say something like "The narrator is trying to adjust to life at Manderley, which she knew nothing about when she married Maxim right after meeting him." then that would be past tense.

    Hope that helps!

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