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Past Present Future

I jumped I jump I will jump
He jumped She jumps It will jump

You jumped You jump You will jump

We jumped We jump We will jump

They jumped They jump They will jump

Naturally, you want to check your correspondence for appropriate tense and person

and number agreement. Whenever possible, you should try to write in the present
tense because the present tense promotes active voice and clear sentence structure.

Note
Literature of all kinds should always be discussed in the

present tense. The general rule is: if it's written down, then it's alive
and, therefore, it requires the present tense. This is especially true
when you are discussing books, periodicals, plays, etc.

Tenses are relatively easy and most native English speakers will properly conjugate
tenses with the correct person and number agreement without even thinking about

it. "Voice," however, tends to be a little trickier and we often lack the same intuitive
understanding of voice that we have of tense, person, and number agreement. The

following section will outline the definition of "voice" and explain how the voice of

your verbs affects the ease with which others understand you.

Voice refers to the type of conjugation of a verb in relation to its agent of action.

There are two types of voices: passive and active. Passive voice describes the
condition of verbs when the subject of a sentence is acted upon, as oppose to the

conventional, active sentence structure in which the subject performs the action.

Naturally, active voice, then, refers to the condition of verbs found in conventional
sentence structures in which the subject is performing the action.

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