A. On Wednesday, Mr. Perez mowed his lawn and fertilizes it, too.
B. The team will play the champions next week and planned a victory party.
C. The swallows will return to Capistrano each spring and left each autumn.
D. The test confirmed the scientist's theory and proved the researchers wrong.
I know nothing about this please help and explain.
2006-07-28 23:29:23 · 8 answers · asked by blazin_cripz_2006_0wner.sheena 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
I am just gonna say that d is the best and I agree with the others on the reasoning
2006-08-01 09:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by unhappyinin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D is the only correct answer, because the verbs used are both indicating the past tense. Think of verb tense as verb time. When is the time of the action? The times shoud always match.
A, B and C are mixing the verb tenses. For example, in A, Mr. Perez mowed his lawn (he did it on Wednesday, which is correct past tense use of the verb "mow"). Then the sentence goes on to say "and fertilizes it", which is the present tense. If it said "and fertilized it", then the verb tenses would have matched and the sentence would be correct.
It is the same with B. "will play" is future tense and "planned" is past tense. If the sentence were changed to "have planned a victory party" then it would make more sense in that they were expecting a victory in the future.
In C, "will return" is again stating a future action, but then it changes to the past tense with "and left". It would be correct if the sentence read "will leave" as this would be also stating a future action and the verbs would all match in that case.
2006-07-28 23:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by TC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is D. both verbs "confirmed" and "proved" are in the past tense. If you have two verbs in one sentence, they must have the same tense, either past, present, or future. Does this help?
2006-07-28 23:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by a1nos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like D to me when I read all of the statements. I'll wait to see who else answers and compare.
2006-07-28 23:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by niki-niki-tembo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
d is correct u should have both the verbs in the same tense. in (a) it should b FERTILIZED , in (b) HAVE PLANNED and in (c) RETURN TO and LEAVE
2006-07-28 23:37:20 · answer #5 · answered by Arjoyita R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
d
2006-07-28 23:33:11 · answer #6 · answered by Billy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D
2006-07-28 23:37:34 · answer #7 · answered by bubaloiie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
d.
2006-07-28 23:33:17 · answer #8 · answered by dmrukifellth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋