CHAPTER 15 / ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR SKILLS 545
Concept Review 9: Tricky Tenses
- When are the perfect tenses used?
- What kinds of ideas are conveyed by “timeless” present-tense verbs?
Circle the correct verb in each of the following sentences.
3.Glen (came/has come) to work exhausted this morning because he (stayed/had stayed) up all last night.4.Already, and without (spending/having spent) so much as an hour on research, Dale (wrote/has written) the
first draft of her essay.5.(Developing/Having developed) the first compressed-air automobile, he (hoped/had hoped) to reveal it to the
world at the exposition.6.Shakespeare’s tragedies (were/are) concerned with the deepest aspects of the human condition.The meaning of the following sentence is ambiguous.
His legs ached because he ran farther than he ever had[run]before.Rewrite it using the correct tenses to indicate that
- The aching started beforehe finished running: ___
- The aching started afterhe finished running: _____
Fix any tense problems in the following sentences.
9.Right after school, we had gone to Mario’s for a pizza and a few Cokes.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________10.Finding no evidence against the accused, the detective had to release him.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________11.Being captured by the rebels, David soon began to fear he would never escape.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________12.When I got home, I wrote an essay on the baseball game that I saw that afternoon.
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