I'm having trouble with the following sentence:
1) Ali is a great manager. He is a born leader.
2) Ali is a great manager. He was a born leader.
I'd say that (1) is the right one since Ali is still alive.
Hope I'm right.
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This is completely correct, as he's still alive, use is, in the simple present. For a person no longer living, use was, which is simple past. Here "born" is an adjective describing what kind of leader Ali is or was, an expansion of He is a leader. It has the same meaning and grammar as "natural leader".
However, as "born" is also a verb, you can also say He was born a leader, which is past perfect because the birth was in the past, an expansion of He was born. This is the same grammar as "He was born a prince."
