Originally Posted by hyperRevue
If threads of the past weeks are any indication, a fair amount of people do.
Paging Terror in Pink and Shants?
yeah, i spent about 20 minutes contributing to that nonsense.
Originally Posted by hyperRevue
But, regardless, in a thread that I saw as evolving into a discussion on a piece of writing, I figured I'd chime in with a correction of a very common error.
Sorry to offend.
but it wasn't incorrect. pay attention: a past-tense clause about "l[ying] awake," followed by a present participle clause about "dying on the inside" is acceptable. it's stating what happened in the past ("lay awake") with a present metaphysical state ("dying on the inside").
"I
fell asleep, yet I'm still dying on the inside" makes sense.
"I
fall asleep, yet I'm still dying on the inside" does, too.