Posted by Iroro on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:33am.
Use of the past tense is correct. Present tense indicates that she is still alive.
I hate to be pedantic, but Briton is an historic term for peoples that occupied the Btitish Isles a thousand or more years ago. The modern term is British. So you would say that 'my late grandmother was British.'
Good point, Dr Russ. I missed that completely!
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