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Keep the same tense

You learn to keep every verb in a sentence in the same tense.

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How to do the test

  1. Find the time word, such as yesterday or every day.
  2. Decide: is the sentence in the past or the present? Check that every verb uses that tense.

Tap the verb that is in the wrong tense. Yesterday we went to the zoo and we see a lion.

  1. Yesterday shows that the sentence is in the past tense.
  2. Every verb must use the same tense.
  3. Change see to saw.
  4. See is in the wrong tense.
More examples

Tap the verb that is in the wrong tense. Now the children are in the hall and they sang a song.

  1. Now shows that the sentence is in the present tense.
  2. Every verb must use the same tense.
  3. Change sang to sing.
  4. Sang is in the wrong tense.

Tap the verb that is in the wrong tense. Last night the wind howled and the trees shake.

  1. Last night shows that the sentence is in the past tense.
  2. Every verb must use the same tense.
  3. Change shake to shook.
  4. Shake is in the wrong tense.