Thursday, February 2, 2012

Sequence of tenses?

Can you please help me with this thing called "sequence of verbs"? From what I'm understanding, if I use "would," I have to keep "would" throughout the sentence. Example: "I would go visit my cousin if he would come visit me as well."



But in a situation like my example below, is it okay not to keep the same tense throughout?




"I went to this store called 'K' yesterday."



"What kind of store was it?"



"It was a store that sells jewelry."





The last sentence is my question. I think I've heard people usually say "Yesterday, I went to a store that sold jewelry". But since I'm just explaining what kind of store it was/is, is it okay not to say "it was a store that sold jewelry"?

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