Verb Tense: Correct Shifts
Choose all of the statements that have an incorrect verb tense shift.

So you finally made it! After twelve-plus years of formal schooling, you've finally earned that last academic
credit, put on the cap and gown, and walk across the stage to pick up that prized piece of parchment.

Only one short summer stands between you and your first year as a college freshman.

Now is the time for you to looking ahead and make a plan for how to not only survive, but also thrive,
while get your undergraduate degree.

The first and most common mistake college freshmen make is letting the freedom provided by a college
atmosphere go straight to their heads.

Yes indeed, fun and parties were a big part of college life - or at least, they can be.

But your first job will be to learn how much fun you can have and still kept that GPA high.

Don't make the fatal mistake of messing up your GPA your freshmen year and then having to spend the
rest of your time in college trying to make up for that first mistake.

Which sentence uses a verb that agrees with its subject

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”