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If it's a kind that existed generally, then we can have a past tense. "He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around a
by wizzwizz4 3y ago
If it's a kind that existed generally, then we can have a past tense.
"He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look, in the before-times."
- jmmcd 3y agoWe now live in a sad, post-apocalyptic world, with no booming, no abandon, no turning around, and very few people in restaurants.
- coldtea 3y agoThis is hardly a bad description of the current state of affairs.
- coldtea 3y agoWe can describe "a kind that exists generally" even if the restaurant turned and looked (then) and would still turn (now and in the future). Just need to change "the" with "a": > He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look. to: > He laughed with a kind of booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look. In this case his laugh is still described as having a generalized "booming abandon", but the reaction of the patrons isn't a necessary reaction to that "kind of" laughter, but to that particular instance of it. That is, the noun is "the kind of booming abandon" and not "the kind of booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look".
- jmmcd 3y agoThis is the best version.