“She walked to the store and buys milk.”
Grammar Entry 348 / 1605 60-second read
Tense Consistency
Avoid switching tenses within the same passage or narrative.
The comparisoni
“She walked to the store and bought milk.”
The ruleii
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TENSE CONSISTENCY = maintain the same tense throughout.
Writers sometimes slip between tenses without noticing.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
If you start in past, stay in past. Past actions = past tense.