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I've been told by my editor that I should change this sentence: "Eventually, the political climate boiled over and I was able to blah, blah, blah..."
To this: Eventually, the political climate did boil over and I was able to..."
The second construction feels awkward, and it certainly isn't how I speak most of the time.
The conflict is "Did boil" versus "Boiled."
I'm speaking in the past tense, so I don't really see a problem with "boiled".
Also, the sentence is in the context of a memoir, not a technical manual or an article in a literary magazine or some such thing.
What say you?
To this: Eventually, the political climate did boil over and I was able to..."
The second construction feels awkward, and it certainly isn't how I speak most of the time.
The conflict is "Did boil" versus "Boiled."
I'm speaking in the past tense, so I don't really see a problem with "boiled".
Also, the sentence is in the context of a memoir, not a technical manual or an article in a literary magazine or some such thing.
What say you?