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Sat 8 Dec, 2012 02:33 pm
Directed by Alex Timbers, who is leading workshops on the recently reported Jeff Buckley musical The Last Goodbye, Rocky has a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and a book by Thomas Meehan.
Could someone tell me which tenses are used and why?
x) Directed
x) is leading
x) has
@tom11,
Subject of sentence is Rocky...(a new musical)
Directed...past participle used as adj. modifies Rocky
A.T. is leading...present progressive tense
Rocky has....present tense
@tom11,
Directed by Alex Timbers, who is leading workshops on the recently reported Jeff Buckley musical The Last Goodbye, Rocky has a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and a book by Thomas Meehan.
Could someone tell me
which tenses are used and why?
x) Directed -
This is short for "The movie [Rocky] was/is directed by ... ." The passive voice is used for the same reason you used it above, which I've marked in bold.
x) is leading
Present continuous/progressive // Alex Timbers is leading workshops on the recently reported Jeff Buckley musical The Last Goodbye,
x) has
Present Tense // 'has' means "possesses a musical score"
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