> "This was my Personal Legend, not yours," the alchemist answered. "But I
> wanted to show you that it was possible."
> ----- The end of the citation -----

>Could the alchemist say, "But I wanted to show you that it IS possible." After
>all he spoke of universal truth, at least he thought so. But may be English
>Grammar demands the Past Tense anyway (was possible)?

I personally would have used IS, but maybe the author used WAS because they
used it in the first part of the quote.

I was always taught to use the active tense, when possible, unless I am
speaking of something that happened in the past.

Mike

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 ■ SLMR 2.1a ■ A preposition is what you don't end a sentence with. Um.
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