Correct Use of Tenses 1

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1. Cobbler will mend your shoes as soon as he finish mine.

 
 
 
 

2. She lie in bed till 12 o’clock yesterday.

 
 
 
 

3. Have they ever be to London?

 
 
 
 

4. I enjoy literature. Up to now, I read hundreds of plays.

 
 
 
 

5. Every time the teacher askes the question, I know the answer.

 
 
 
 

6. By next May, I write this book.

 
 
 
 

7. All the answers to this question be wrong.

 
 
 
 

8. It is I who be in trouble.

 
 
 
 

9. They hope that he pass the examination.

 
 
 
 

10. Before the sun sets, we reach our home.

 
 
 
 

11. By the end of this year, we complete our syllabus.

 
 
 
 

12. Have you not lie the table yet?

 
 
 
 

13. A thief break into his house last night.

 
 
 
 

14. She contact us somehow.

 
 
 
 

15. In the morning he count ten and then jumps out of bed.

 
 
 
 

16. Graham Bell invent the telephone.

 
 
 
 

17. A coward die many times before his death.

 
 
 
 

18. The mother told her child not to play outside while it rain.

 
 
 
 

19. After the concert, everyone raise and clapped.

 
 
 
 

20. Take your medicine. Then you feel better later.

 
 
 
 


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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