Thread:Copper5/@comment-5392675-20180317065109/@comment-5392675-20180318140151

Bwburke94 wrote: "Is" implies present tense. Present tense is used in factual statements (e.g. "XYZ is a member of A"), so I don't see anything wrong there, especially since it's the tense we use for "XYZ competing in A". But if that grammar is unsatisfactory, "was" can also be used, and it would be more grammatically correct than "as", which would leave a hanging statement which should not be favored over a complete sentence.