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SAT Writing & Language: Maintaining Parallel Structure with Verb Tenses 4 Views
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Do tenses confuse you? Watch this SAT Writing video to get some practice in
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- 00:01
Arch members only two more of these things and focus
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here is on having begun so well We've read this
- 00:08
thing eighteen times now So we're going to cruise down
- 00:11
to here second last paragraph because it was already producing
- 00:13
results with ford and relaxing having begun developing project next
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- 00:16
month to advance research on cost And i don't even
- 00:18
think about it Think about it So these two companies
- 00:23
will start a project next month In order to maintain
- 00:26
the sentence structure we need a verb ending in ing
- 00:29
to suggest the progressive action it's a jared it's happening
- 00:32
now and continuing to happen In other words we need
- 00:35
to show that the action will be happening or progressing
- 00:38
at a certain time and we have a time or
- 00:40
two tins problem here having plus a verb that ends
- 00:43
in is an example of the past part of simple
- 00:46
which is used when an action has already been completed
- 00:50
The project in the sentence won't start until next month
- 00:52
so there's no way it's already done so get rid
- 00:54
of a though the companies will also be having a
- 00:57
joint development project joint development Actually having the project doesn't
- 01:02
describe what they'll be doing with it began past tense
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of begin is impossible without time travel since project doesn't
- 01:09
start until next month So yeah it's be beginning that's
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what you replace it with and well then we're done
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