The narrative tense or narrative time determines the grammatical tense of the story; whether in the past, present, or future.
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Famous quotes containing the words narrative and/or time:
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“An inch of time is worth more than a foot of jade.”
—Chinese proverb.