Local Revision: Tense Usage

Gerd Altmann, Board Blackboard Words Force, 1/12/2016, via Pixabay, Public Domain Distribtution License

Present Tense:

has 
remains 

are

is 
focuses
learning
remains
are
learning
respond 
recites
states
reform
update
help
create
kicking
inform
concerning
surrounding
replace 
understand
shut
testing
searching
pose
shows
putting
be
come
implement
touches
believes
describes
talks
contradicts
basing
Say
resenting
comes
bring

Past Tense:
stayed
began
adopted
changed
was
stated
shown
passed
kicked
occurred
implemented 

published

described

followed 
balanced
achieved

were

sparked
divided
scrambled
came
searched
caused
provided
remained 
worked
created
designed
emerged
pounded
rose
entwined
wrote
used
showed
calmed
touched 
eliminated
limited
called
taught
seemed
summed
happened
brought
criticized
involved

taken

Future Tense:

1: I use the present tense the most in my draft, but I had a near equivalent amount of verbs that were in the past tense as well.

2: Considering that I had no future tense verbs in my draft, it's safe to say that my quick reference guide seemed to allude to the Math Wars as a past event. Furthermore, the excess amount of past tense verbs help show the Math Wars as something created and already past..

3: From what I see, the past tense verbs mostly apply to how events that can be applied to the Math Wars were founded, while the present tense verbs were used for how the same events are having repercussions in the present time. Overall, the flow between the two tenses works out very well.

4: My use of present tense verbs isn't much of a crescendo per say, but an observation. A great majority of my present tense verbs aren't action verbs, so they work as a way for the reader to observe the events rather than vicariously understand the macrocosm of the Math Wars.