My daughter recently wrote the sentence, "If someone other than Dullhead touched the goose, they stuck." I think we need something like "got" or "became" before "stuck." I also think it needs a preposition afterwards saying what he got stuck to (the goose).

I looked up "stuck," and most online dictionaries say it can be both past tense and past participle.  I would almost never say, "The caramel spilled all over the floor, and I stuck in it."  I think I could say that, but "I got stuck in it," or "I became stuck in it," would be more likely.

Now this could be avoided entirely if she had written the summary of "The Golden Goose" in the present tense.  I recently came across a writing book for children that said, "When you talk or write about what happens in a story, you should always use the present tense."  In all my years of schooling, I don't remember ever being instructed to do that.  Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

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