Example: “This study was conducted at the Iyarina Field School, and within the indigenous Waorani community within Yasuni National Park region.” The introduction is usually in present tense due to the ...

Sometimes a fiction writer may use the present tense to make their writing more immediate, as in this example from The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: ‘It’s hard being left behind.

The examples below show how an action, state, or occurrence can be moved from a noun back to a verb. In your scientific paper, use verb tenses (past, present, and future) exactly as you would in ...