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TSI Writing: Parallel Structure with Verb Tenses 6 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.

Trevor ate turkey, drinking cranberry juice, and watched football with Aunt Matilda last Thanksgiving.


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Okay see writers let's go edit another sentence Trevor ate

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turkey drinking cranberry juice and watched football with aunt matilda

00:10

last thanksgiving All right we got a problem here clearly

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so let's Think about this Drinking is the culprit here

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Probably this thanksgiving will be thankful for parallel sentence structure

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were going to say is we go around the table

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Seriously we do it from here All the verbs in

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this sentence need to be in the same tents eight

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and watched are in the past tense right there happened

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when they were done so drinking which is continuing needs

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to be changed to drink so drinking and drinks doesn't

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meant to tense the other verb right and splitting the

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second sense of fragment So that's it it's see turkey

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comma drink bring on the pumpkin pie All right we're 00:00:52.92 --> [endTime] shmoop

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