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TSI Writing: Selecting the Correct Verb Tense
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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

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an editor from up for half minimum wage All right

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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

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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

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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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