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Subject:RE: a question about verb tense/is or was? From:"Brian Hoskins" <bhoskins -at- oz -dot- quest -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:07:21 +1100
Personally, I would say that the present tense is correct since it implies
the current state of the score. The use of 'was' leads one to question what
the score is now. The tense of other verbs in the sentence does not
automatically determine the tense of the verb 'to be' in this situation.
However, a better solution is to leave out the words 'that is/was'. They are
superfluous in this situation. The sentence than reads:
"number of times the scorer submitted a score for a response one point lower
than that which another scorer submitted."
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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