1.
In Hill's post, he asked something about what tense we should use when people talked about truth like 'cat is an animal' in the past. I know that in this case we should use present tense.
However, I also have a similar problem. If something is not a truth, but it's still correct now, what tense should I use?
For example, 'She is a student from Berkeley' (4 years later she will graduate) or 'she is alive' (a hundrend years later she must die)' are not truths. So when I write sentences like 'I had an interview with her. She is/was a student from Berkeley' or 'I saw the news on the newspaper, and she is/was alive', which form should I choose?
Then, if I wrote 'He told me that she was alive', can people tell if she was still alive when he told me or she was once alive but already dead when he told me?
2.
When we write some fixed expression like 'what's more' in a past story or experience, should we wrote 'what was more' instead of 'what's more'?
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