Beyond Tense, Her Voice Was Positively Nuclear
1 min readAug 17, 2020
Is this where the Prairie School Marm comes in, and points out that not only are there twelve tenses, one has to take into account the various moods - things that may be considered "tenses" in other languages?
Or voice. Voice is fun — and so often the subject of contentious arguments between writers, as it is frequently confused with “action verbs” and “showing vs. telling.”
It’s more fun than tossing an actual grenade into a cocktail party, unless you’re a total psychopath.
