Tenses driving me nuts.

by Emma Taylor
29th March 2013

Hi

I'm looking at the first line of my book and being driven nuts. The sentence says

Alex and I were speeding along our favourite road.

I want the sentence to be written in the present tense, so do I need to change were to are?

Alex and I are speeding along our favourite road.

It just doesn't feel right this way, maybe it is down to how I speak. What do you think?

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I think the more I write the less chance I would ever have at truly defining sanity!

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30/03/2013

Um... Could you define sanity please? Not your own - but just as a general concept???

;-)

David

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Thank you Lauren. You have saved my sanity.

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