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TSI Writing: Oh Deer, Which Verb Tense is Correct? 2 Views
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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
The train conductor
expected to have spotted the deer on the track before dusk last night.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay see reading people Another sentence for you to analyze
- 00:06
here The train conductor expected to have spotted the deer
- 00:11
on the track before dusk last night huh What's wrong
- 00:15
with that All those pesky dear always coming from the
- 00:19
wrong side of the tracks And it sounds like there's
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- 00:21
A story behind this late day creature encounter But the
- 00:24
only story we care about begins with once upon a
- 00:27
time there was a sense that needed a past tense
- 00:29
verb How do we know we're looking for expected Well
- 00:32
the clue is before dusk last night the conductor's spotted
- 00:37
the deer a day ago named bambi not a mother
- 00:40
Yeah we're crying so we need to past tense verb
- 00:43
here That's it And i remember the movie bambi versus
- 00:45
godzilla That's Kind of what It's like a train track
- 00:49
Well save the loser ball here The verb needs to
- 00:51
remain in the past tense to be grammatically correct So
- 00:54
that eliminates the present tense Expect so Get rid of
- 00:57
b and the president progressive is expecting like it's pregnant
- 01:01
d so get ready Yeah Meanwhile may expect see expresses
- 01:06
possibility and situation with the deer went down last night
- 01:08
So that's it The answer's A expected and wear shmoop 00:01:13.78 --> [endTime] thief
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