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The Past Historic tense is used mainly in literary texts or newspapers and magazines, usually for EFFECT!
It is often used in the third person singular and plural.
It describes the past actions that took place at a specific moment in time.
*In other kinds of text, the PERFECT tense is preferred!*
The past historic is sometimes used instead of the perfect tense in newspapers and magazines.
It is often used in literary texts. It is common to find a mix of tenses when describing the past:
- the past historic for narrative
- the perfect in conversation
- the imperfect for description or for things which occurred more than once
- the pluperfect
