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Yoong Liat
 
Reply Tue 20 Nov, 2007 06:03 am
The name of the writer of The Old Man and the Sea is/was Ernest Hemingway.

Should I use 'is' or 'was' as the author is no longer alive.

Many thanks.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Tue 20 Nov, 2007 06:32 am
is.

he will always be the author of that book, even though he is no longer with us...
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Tue 20 Nov, 2007 07:45 am
Literature is eternal. Use the present tense.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Tue 20 Nov, 2007 11:18 am
Thanks, guys.
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