Got some bad news, Harvey
The perils of mixing tenses:
Bad news for lawyer Harvey Miller, 36, of Toledo: You aren't out of the woods yet! We're all going to die! And bad news for hed writers: You can't follow the past with the present in this wise. Harvey probably feared he might die, or feared he would die. But if he feared he may die, he was kinda wasting his time.
posted by fev at 8:35 AM
2 Comments:
Whoa! Nice Slavic sequence of tenses in indirect speech, there!
Also, "But if he feared he may die, he was kinda wasting his time."
Which, I presume, is why he no longer fears it? ;-)
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