And by the way, you don't shift the tense unnecessarily, I was told. But I think there must be an exception to this rule. I think the ability to weave in and out of the past, present and future tenses, is an art in itself that needs perfections.
The only guide I hold on in as far as tense is concerned is this, "It's okay to move from past to present but it's not okay to move back into the past in the same sentence". I don't know if this is true.
Perhaps I may come to this issue in the course of reading The Element of Style By William Strunk and E B White.
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