Is an indentation (Tab button in Word) needed for a new paragraph when you start one? I was told to do that a long time ago but 3 years after I stopped doing it and have done it since.
Are you meant to indent when you start a new paragraph?
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This is purely a matter of style. Even Dickens' publishers didn't follow that rule. This is from Google Books' reproduction of A Tale of Two Cities published in Philadelphia in 1859:
However, at least one reproduction of this passage does split this single paragraph between the end of the quote and And.
Paragraphs generally hold a single idea. If there is narration which follows directly from the quotation and it could be understood as part of the same idea, it's reasonable for it to be all in the same paragraph.
Linguists call the perfect forms "aspect" not tenses, but that's probably not terribly important here.
1) Yes, the sequence of past/present-perfect forms doesn't imply sequence. If the author needs to specify sequence, he/she needs to change the time.
2) In the quoted passage, the last verb IS past-perfect. What makes you think otherwise? He is remembering the aircraft from earlier. Without "had," it would say that another aircraft flew overhead and triggered his memory.
3) I think you have a very good understanding of the English past/present-perfect. I just think someone confused you with bad information on this one sentence.
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I'm not an expert here but I thought I would illustrate two different styles of paragraphs:
The first pair of paragraphs are not indented, there is line-space between them.
The second pair of paragraphs are delineated by indenting the first line. Typically one would use double line-spacing with indentation, I show them compacted to better illustrate the difference.
What's important isn't which is more appropriate than the other (though there certainly are situations where one would be required over the other). The important thing is that the reader is able to distinguish where one paragraph ends and the next begins.
If you were to use both line-spacing and indentation of paragraphs, that would simply be redundant.