Is or was?
The boat hit a rock and sank quickly. Fortunately everybody is/was rescued.
What should be used in the sentence, is or was and why?

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'Was rescued' because the first sentence is in the past so the next sentence has to be in the past too!

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as the sentence is in past simple, you should use was :))
The boat hit a rock and sank quickly. Fortunately everybody was rescued.

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"was" - past tense
The first sentence was in the past tense so the following sentence, which relates to the first sentence, has to be in the same tense.

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was rescued.