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The book carried the readers through an experience of this reamingly unbelievable world where gods and humans *are* entangled in a physical combat.

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...where gods and humans *were* entagled in a physical combat.

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Usually, a literary analysis refers to the characters in the story in the present tense, so "are" would be correct. I have never heard of the word "reamingly", so you might want to verify its correctness. Also, you would need a comma between your two adverbs: reamingly and unbelievable.

I agree with Diana that you should write "the book carries." And I think you mean "seemingly." But as to commas --- no, no, no. "Seemingly" is an adverb and it modifies the adjective "unbelievable." That's what adverbs do.

Juliet+1 wrote: ↑11 Apr 2021, 13:49 I agree with Diana that you should write "the book carries." And I think you mean "seemingly." But as to commas --- no, no, no. "Seemingly" is an adverb and it modifies the adjective "unbelievable." That's what adverbs do.

Juliet, thanks for the clarification. I was thrown by the strange word but should have recognized it as an adverb since it ends in ly.

The second option should go.. why?? The verb carried in the sentence only points out that we are referring to an action performed in the past. So if you decide to choose the first option that would be totally out of point.