Friday, April 13, 2018

style - Reasons for confusion over tenses in a story


When writing stories in past tense (which is majority of the time) whether it be an essay for class or an unassembled essay for home and in my own time, I often find myself writing some of my sentences in the following way:



"No!" I yelled, ignoring him completely.




I always get corrected with the words after the comma. I have been told it is not written in the right tense...I don't understand how the tense would be wrong?




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