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Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Person
1. A driver should never race your motor without a warm-up
2. When I was in high school, you never knew what to expect
They should be corrected in the same person
1. A driver should never race his motor without a warm-up
2. When I was in high school, I never know what to expected
Special attention should be paid to the person of nouns and pronouns that
refer to indefinite individuals or groups
3. A human being can never ignore your own feelings.
A human being can never ignore his own feelings
4. It always seems to anyone that I will never die.
It always seems to anyone that he will never die
Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Person
Also keep in mind the distinction between one
that are often involved in faulty person shifts nd you, two pronouns
Wrong: When one is sick, you dont want company.
Then you are sick, you dont want company.
When one are sick, one dont want company.
hen one are sick, he dont want company.
Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Tense
A writer must be sure that changes in tense are based on real changes
time: otherwise, the result is needless confusion
1)The photographer was changing film when the building shudders and
The photographer was changing film when the building shuddered
and collapsed.
2)I was extremely sorry you are injured
I am extremely sorry you are injured
Note: the historical present is generally used in literary writing
If you start with the historical present, you should not lapse into
the past tense
Confusing Shifts
Confusing Shifts in Subject and voie
A writer should never shift subjects in closely related clauses without
good reason. Here is a sentence in which the subject changes
unnecessarily
Mike cannot keep orchids alive, but geraniums are easy for him to grow.
The sentence should say
Mike cannot keep orchids alive, but he finds it easy to grow geraniums
Sticking to the same grammatical subject when possible will improve the
clar
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