Tense Consistency Practice
These activities give you the opportunity to find out how well you can maintain tense consistency in sentences and paragraphs. If you have a difficult time identifying and correcting unnecessary tense shifts, you may review and then try these practice activities again.
Activity 1
Now that we know how to avoid unnecessary tense shifts when writing, let’s put our knowledge into practice.
These activities give you the opportunity to find out how well you can maintain tense consistency in sentences and paragraphs. If you have a difficult time identifying and correcting unnecessary tense shifts, you may review and then try these practice activities again.
Read these sentences. Pick the one that uses inconsistent verb tense.
Source: Rebekah Bennetch; Corey Owen; and Zachary Keesey, https://openpress.usask.ca/rcm200/chapter/verb-tense/
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