Correct Use of Tenses 2

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1. My cousin ran so that he catch the train.

 
 
 
 

2. She smile because she is happy.

 
 
 
 

3. His car collide with a truck last night.

 
 
 
 

4. He go to college nowadays at 8 o’clock.

 
 
 
 

5. He go to Karachi tomorrow.

 
 
 
 

6. Her son ran away and she not see him for two years.

 
 
 
 

7. He drink three cups of tea since 4 o’clock.

 
 
 
 

8. He is reading ‘The Times’ today, but on Fridays, he read ‘The New Statement’.

 
 
 
 

9. He found his book this morning but now he lost his pen.

 
 
 
 

10. She repeat it all over again.

 
 
 
 

11. I never understand what she says.

 
 
 
 

12. At present he watch television.

 
 
 
 

13. Children do nothing but play.

 
 
 
 

14. She did hard work and succeed.

 
 
 
 

15. He fall in love with her over a year ago.

 
 
 
 

16. They sit in the library when I saw him.

 
 
 
 

17. They say very little where there are strangers present.

 
 
 
 

18. He invite you to the cinema if he thinks you want to go.

 
 
 
 

19. The teacher said that it rain today.

 
 
 
 

20. He give me the camera I asked for.

 
 
 
 

Sometimes we combine parts of a sentence that are in different tenses, for example, one part may be in the present tense and the other part may be in the future tense.

As a general rule, the verb tense you are using should be consistent throughout your sentence and your paragraph. Consider an example:

The sentence

“We had eaten dinner, and then we talked”

should be written as

“We ate dinner, and then we talked”

Correct use of Tenses

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