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Show The Tenses. Nothing is more correct, and nothing more frequent in the best writers than the substitution substitu-tion ol one tense fur another by an etiort of imagination, us, fur instance, in-stance, when a historian, imagining come scene of the past to be enacted before his eyes, describes it in the present tense. In tbe same way a future scene may be made present by the imagination, and may bo described des-cribed as actually occurring at this moment. In the phrase, however "to-morrc.v is Washington's birthday," birth-day," this imaginative transposition of the tense is justified not only by its universal idiomatic use among people peo-ple of education, but also by the fact that to-morrow is a thing wholly imaginary, having no actual existence, exis-tence, but only conceived of by the mind as something to occur in the future. This being so, the speaker or writer can speak ot it either in the present tense or the future, just as he pleases; and either mode of speech will ne grammatically correct. Sun. |