<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=18531.msg725472#msg725472">Quote from: Inkedu on 22-07-2008, 01:19:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">This is present tense writing.<br/><br/>The boy was hit by the ball.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Um, no, that's past tense.<br/><br/>"The boy is hit by the ball" is present tense. It's happening now, in the present. 'Was'<em>has</em>happened. In the past.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Past tense writing.<br/><br/>The boy had been hit by the ball.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Which is past tense passive. ;) It's almost never used since it sounds very ugly after a while.