Often that’s a good call, but not always. XNXX How right she had been, he thought. They were much nicer about it than I suspect I would have been. So err… that’s all my thoughts for now. Thanks contextual information. Let’s just look at how those two tenses work by giving examples. John went to the fridge. Simplicity and brevity are pretty self-explanatory virtues, I think. Can it be simpler? He was obviously completely wrong” then it won’t be clear who ‘he’ is. When you speak out loud the rise and fall of your voice clears up a lot of potential ambiguity. “Shelly was mortified. It’s a truism that as soon as you publish something you will immediately see a glaring error, and that goes double when you write something that, by its nature, will provoke gleeful joy from anyone who spots such an error and gets to point it out.
