Sometimes a fiction writer may use the present tense to make their writing more immediate, as in this example from The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: ‘It’s hard being left behind.

Example: “This study was conducted at the Iyarina Field School, and within the indigenous Waorani community within Yasuni National Park region.” The introduction is usually in present tense due to the ...

writers also use the present tense when they are writing about facts, for example, ‘The Earth orbits the Sun’. This fact is unlikely to change. It is the verbs in a sentence that determine its ...