Could someone please help me about when to use past or present tense on an article I'm trying to write?

Question

I'm doing a write-up for a newspaper on an article my team played about a month ago. At the end, I'm including the roster so do I want to write: "The manager of the team was and the assistant coaches of the team were..." or should I write "the manager of the team is and the assistant coaches of the team are..."

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Answer 1

There are many different ways you could structure this, all correct. It would be helpful to see the entire sentence.

For example, you could say:

Team manager [NAME] and assistant coaches [NAME] and [NAME] headed up the xx-member team: NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, etc. (listing the team members' names here).

OR: The winning team was led by manager NAME and coaches NAME, NAME and NAME.

These people *were* the manager/coach at the time the game was played, so I would keep it all past tense. Otherwise, it could become clumsy.

But if that doesn't answer the question, please include the entire sentence so we can see the structure you're working with.

Answer 2

If you played a month ago and you're talking about that, the first past tense one.

Answer 3

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/e...

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