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Shift in Tenses
Following is an excerpt from a student essay:
From that day on, everyone in my high school knew I was an atheist because of the ridicule that
she gave me. Then and there I realized that I never wanted to be anything like that. I’d never
belittled someone just because I have a different view on something as they do. The whole
situation made me feel like even more of an outcast because people in my school seemed to
not want to associate with a person who was an atheist.
Here is my corrected copy in which I have corrected shifts in tense:
From that day on, everyone in my high school knew I was an atheist because of the ridicule that
she gave me. Then and there I realized that I never wanted to be anything like that. I’d never
belittled someone just because I had a different view on something they did. The whole
situation made me feel like even more of an outcast because people in my school seemed to
not want to associate with a person who was an atheist.
