Barron's AP English Language and Composition by George Ehrenhaft

Author:George Ehrenhaft
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Published: 2015-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Mini-Workout: Verb Tenses

Directions: In these sentences, the underlined verbs may be in the wrong tense. Write the correct verbs in the spaces provided. Some sentences may contain no error.

1. When he talks with his wife, Macbeth felt overcome with guilt.

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2. When they crossed the country by car, they had visited Mount Rushmore.

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3. In the school parking lot, a policeman stops her and asked to see her driver’s license.

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4. Writing a poem every week for a year, Danny finally got one accepted by a literary magazine.

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5. In the afternoon we spotted many friends we saw that morning at the pancake breakfast.

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6. Once the levee had broken, the streets have been flooded.

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7. For anyone with enough brains to have thought about the problem, now is the time to work out a solution.

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8. If Susan would have stayed home, she would not have missed Dave’s phone call.

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9. Marcy kept the promise she has given to Kenny last summer.

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10. The airline pilot expects to have seen the lights of the Jackson airport by now.

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Ken: “How are you?”

Bob: “Good, and you?

Ken: “I’m well, thanks.”

Which speaker knows his grammar?

(Answer below)*

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