Example 2:
While I was painting his feet, he had tickled me.
Presumably, he interrupted the feet painting with his tickling, so the sentence
should read:
While I was painting his feet, he tickled me.
Underline your verbs and make sure they match. (Underlining is my favorite pastime.)
—Samantha
This makes the sentence consistent. Never mind that it’s weird—consistency
is all that matters here. So, as the people in these sentences carry on with their
mildly deviant activities, just go through and make sure everything is done in the
proper time sequence.
COMMANDMENT 6: THOU SHALT NOT REPLACE AN ADVERB WITH AN ADJECTIVE, NOR
AN ADJECTIVE WITH AN ADVERB.
Remember the difference between an adjective and an adverb? If not, your sixth-
grade teacher will hunt you down and banish you from recess. The College
Board likes to mix these two up.
Adjectives describe nouns. An adjective will always make grammatical sense
in the phrase the ___ wombat. (Example: the lascivious wombat)