I am rewriting my conclusions chapter, to change it from passive and present tense to active and past tense. A few times it seems a bit awkward to have a given time-invariant sentence in the past tense, however, and I wonder if you think it is OK to mix it a bit as follows. For example, I may now have something like: FT-Linda is described in Chapter 3. Its provisions for creating multiple tuple spaces with different attributes are presented. These attributes are ... I would change it to something like the following: Chapter 3 presented FT-Linda. As an aside,