Paragraph 2
In 1999, The Academy of Pediatrics provided some guidelines for children and TV.
They suggest that children under two years old should not watch TV. They advised
that even older children should not watch TV before bedtime. Instead, they said that
parents should read to children, or children might read to themselves and with their
parents.
Written Practice 1-4
In each of the following sentences, fi nd the verb (action word). Label each verb
present,past, or future. The fi rst one is done for you.
- A consumer quickly learns that “living green” is not easy. learns/present
- I will avoid plastic packaging as much as possible.
- My family turned off the lights all over the house.
- Toby decided to cycle to work.
- Marilyn’s child uses much less hand towels than my child does.
- He eats lunch at the same time every day.
- Our three children will play together tomorrow.
- They ate lunch in the park.
- I collected shells on the beach.
- I keep a scrapbook for each child.
- You will ask yourself some important questions before the election.
- The law student completed his fi nal exam.
- David played the guitar in the band Neville Blues.
- Aidan will start school next year.
- The car stops at every yellow light.
CONSISTENT VERB TENSE IN PARAGRAPHS
The verb tenses in the previous written practice section were likely easy to deter-
mine. You have just made decisions about tense in single sentences, and you can do
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