ACT Preparation / Unit 6 ACT 0520 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Coherence: Tense, Person and Sequence
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The idea
A passage holds together when its tense, its point of view and its sequence of events stay consistent, and the events are connected by transitions.
In practice
A narrative in the past tense and the first person keeps both, from its first sentence to its last.
Where people slip
Unit three's rules on tense and person apply across sentences as well as within one.
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