au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/8013666 … hits-roof/ A 37-year-old woman [color=red]is dead after her car rolled up an embankment and became airborne before crashing on to the roof of a house.
Is this sentence fine as it is? Is “A 37-year-old woman [color=darkblue]died” correct?
[color=red]is is a simple present tense form and [color=blue]rolled is a past tense form, so I think that [color=green]is dead should have been [color=darkblue]died. Am I wrong?
Thank you, MM.
The accident occurred yesterday and the article was written on the same day. However, if the article had been written today, would the sentence have been “A 37-year-old woman [color=green]died…”?
I see that Mister Micawber resolved this… but as I seem to have caused you confusion:
I asked the question regarding whether the woman came back to life, not made a statement.
If she did, she is alive.
If she didn’t (which is obviously the case), she is dead (as the words in bold in my question indicate).
If someone dies then that person is dead. It doesn’t matter whether they died seconds ago or years ago.
Ok, well you guys are the experts,
…just that Mr M, in #8 agrees that there is essentially no difference in meaning, and it comes from a news report that seems to use ‘journospeak’ so the choice between ‘she died’ and ‘she is dead’ would seem to be deliberate. To me ‘is dead’ is more dramatic and striking than ‘died’ …