Writers, over the last decade, have been waxing lyrical about the rise of the present tense in English fiction. But this morning I read something entirely new – for me, at least. I read a manuscript ...

Tense is the form of a verb which tells you when something happened. Look at the verb ‘talk’ for example. Technically, there are only two grammatical tenses in English: present and past. To talk about ...

Writers, over the last decade, have been waxing lyrical about the rise of the present tense in English fiction. But this morning I read something entirely new – for me, at least. I read a manuscript ...