Tenses
Tenses
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I am a graduate engineer and have to do training report every three months. However, I faced a question about what tense should be used in my reports. Normally, the reports cover what I did over the last 3 months, in general, the tense should be past tense. However, when I talk about the client of a project which has not finished when I write the report. What tense should be used?
(For example: Over the last three months, I have been devoted to a project of which the client [is/was] XX company)
(For example: Over the last three months, I have been devoted to a project of which the client [is/was] XX company)





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When you come across situations like your example, I would try to remove tense whenever possible. "Over the last three months, I have been devoted to a project for client XX company." If that is not possible, I would stay in past tense because during that period, company XX was the client, and to maintain consistency.
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However, my understanding is (may be wrong) the project has not finished yet. I am still working for this client. Last time, when faced the same situation and used the past tense in my training report, my training advisor said I had to use present tense....It is very confusing....
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corus
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"Last month we completed testing of the hydraulic system. Next month we plan to validate the control software."
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Client has been xx company (was and still is)
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