Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances Adrian Chiles’s article concerning the use of the present tense in ...
I have been singing all day. She has been reading. Some people have been in government since 1999. The lecturer has been teaching at UNILAG for eight years. He has been sleeping in the other room. The ...
One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.