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TSI Writing: Selecting the Correct Verb Tense 9 Views
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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Whenever I think of the Roaring Twenties,
I thought
of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Okay sy writing shmoop furs We gotta hold unjust sentence
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completion or fixing or editing things training you to be
- 00:09
an editor from up for half minimum wage All right
- 00:13
so here we go to dive right in the first
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one Whenever i think of the roaring twenties i thought
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of f scott fitzgerald Art there's Clearly something wrong here
- 00:21
What's wrong Well now old sport Tell the cold brits
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in the twenties talked in movies If anyone can master
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keeping his verbs in line It's jay gatsby When a
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sentence uses more than one vern while those verbs need
- 00:36
to match tense especially when daisy buchanan's around Well then
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gatsby you know tenses right out too soon and no
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spoiler alerts First clause says i think which is in
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the present tense we need i think to keep things
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on an even keel Or at least until daisy's husband
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discovered her love for another man Did we spoil that
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there Hey the green light is not aliens landing and
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then taking over earth just saying so The right answer
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is b i think and there's a corollary work of
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literature that says therefore i am but well we won't 00:01:10.271 --> [endTime] Go there that's it We're smoked
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