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TSI Writing: Choosing the Right Past Tense Verb 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.
If they wait until fall to buy a new house,
they would have saved over five thousand dollars.
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay sy reading shmoop offers another section here Tense verbs
- 00:05
We're going to try to get them do a de
- 00:07
stress here a little bit So it diverted in the
- 00:09
first sentence Here we go If they wait until fall
- 00:12
to buy a new house they would have saved over
Full Transcript
- 00:15
five thousand dollars Okay something's wrong here right If they
- 00:19
wait until then they would have we got a conditional
- 00:23
thing Maria that's A problem Okay so well the second
- 00:26
half of the sentence tells us that these homeowners didn't
- 00:29
actually wait to buy their house They just jumped right
- 00:32
in and they lost out on some major savings because
- 00:35
of it Yeah Ouch Patients in virtue and all that
- 00:39
Well we want the option that shows the homeowners already
- 00:41
bought their home So d is the right answer Had
- 00:45
they waited until fall to buy a new house well
- 00:48
then it would have saved over five grand right If
- 00:50
the verb weight is in the present tense like it
- 00:53
is in a well it won't work with the would
- 00:55
have saved thing which indicates an action That's already been
- 00:59
completed Additional That makes a simple past tense of the
- 01:02
verb was delayed a tense shift as well but just
- 01:06
chilled Era was delayed Finally would of makes us wanna
- 01:10
back quietly away from this dream home This is nonstandard
- 01:13
english not even in rap albums It's also known is
- 01:17
completely wrong and please never use it again So the 00:01:19.445 --> [endTime] answer is day and we are shmoop Oh
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