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Actually, that is incorrect! It is perfectly okay to switch tense in a sentence if that gives meaning to it.
"I went to SMU and I have blue eyes" - I didn't have to say I HAD blue eyes, because that still holds true, get it?
The verb tense rule refers to the general tense of a paragraph. Like you can't talk about your day in the past tense for part of the paragraph and then in the present tense in the other half. You just have to be consistent. But that has nothing to do with things that actually DID happen at different times, or when one situation has passed and the other is still happening.
Last edited by dzsaigirl; 05-07-2002 at 11:09 PM.
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