Local Revision: Tense Usage

Yay! More lists! It was definitely more time-consuming than I thought, but voila!

Present:

·       mad

·       is: 37

·       sexist

·       performs: 2

·       stay: 3

·       focuses: 3

·       be: 6

·       going: 2

·       testing

·       assume

·       fight

·       make

·       focuses

·       affects

·       are: 19

·       remain

·       get: 8

·       joking

·       make: 2

·       exercise

·       exist: 2

·       being: 5

·       test: 6

·       uses: 3

·       does

·       riot

·       ask

·       mention

·       let

·       shows: 3

·       sleep

·       reinforces

·       responsible

·       spread

·       carry

·       do: 10

·       forget

·       taking

·       coming: 2

·       skyrocketing

·       starting: 3

·       calling

·       can: 3

·       fall

·       march

·       state: 2

·       through

·       win

·       freeze

·       help

·       pay: 2

·       need: 3

·       ganging

·       raping: 2

·       read

·       decide

·       wait

·       joking: 2

·       does: 4

·       affects: 3

·       diminishing: 2

·       saying

·       cover

·       keeping: 2

·       rising

·       reduce

·       follow

·       feel

·       know

·       open

·       sees

·       protesting

·       judge

·       determining

·       puts: 2

·       open

·       look

·       insert

·       save

·       passing

·       excluding

·       telling

·       adds

·       ignores

·       chooses

·       happening: 4

·       targeting

·       stands

·       becoming

Past:

·       Started: 3

·       have: 10

·       been

·       had

·       broke

·       been: 5

·       won

·       decided: 2

·       happened

·       used: 3

·       has: 7

·       been: 5

·       found

·       sounds

·       performing

·       founded

·       was: 10

·       found: 3

·       were: 3

·       broken

·       born

·       started

·       took: 4

·       organized

·       became: 3

·       united

·       dedicated

·       gotten

·       showed

·       taken

·       did

·       mentioned

·       surrounded

·       dragged

·       forced

·       released

·       received: 3

·       banned

·       said: 4

·       diagnosed

·       described

·       risen

·       went

·       heard

·       asked

·       held: 2

·       taught

·       explained

·       mentioned: 3

·       stated

·       linked

·       realized

Future:

·       fast-forward

·       will: 3

·       become

·       give

·       provide

• The most prevalent tense in my draft is definitely the present tense.

• I think this reflects how I put the readers in a situation where the situation is still going on, then I reveal what ended up happening. A story is best told when immersing the reader.

• I use more past and present tense, there's barely any future tense in my draft. Not too sure if that's a good or bad thing, but I'm gonna roll with it. The shifts between past and present is mostly when I bring up past events that correlate with the controversy that I was focusing on. 

• Oh don't worry, I definitely employed present tense verbs in my piece... Like I said earlier, it helps to put the reader directly in the situation and forces them to choose a side as the story unfolds, then once the story ends the reader can feel like they were actually a part of the controversy itself.