VA 3.

1: VERB TENSE ERRORS

30. Before the Industrial Age began , virtually the only forms of intra-urban mass transportation were those that
were slowly drawn by means of horses. [Verb Tense]

1. After he had drunk the warm milk, he began to feel sleepy and decided to go to bed. [Verb Tense]

2. When I (had) got back from work and was having a shower, my wife said that she had seen just the curtains that we had
been looking for. [Verb Tense]

3. Before we were called for breakfast, he had swum for fifteen minutes in the ocean. [Verb Tense]

4. When he began to sing, all of us became quiet. [Verb Tense]

5. Rumours of a planned corporate buyout aroused so much buyer interest that the price of the stock rose by five dollars a
share before the day’s trading ended. [Verb Tense]

6. The 16-year-old slave, who had disguised herself as a boy to join the Underground Railroad, finally swam across the
Potomac to find protection in the capital. [Verb Tense]
7. After he had spoken for several minutes, Governor Short realised that the hubbub in the audience indicated that he was
not holding his listeners’ attention. [Verb Tense]
8. Only recently has the full extent of the damage, hidden deep underwater when the Maine sank, been carefully explored
and the true cause of the famous explosion revealed. [Verb Tense]
9. Jefferson grieved at the death of Philip Mazzei, whose advice about viniculture had been followed assiduously since the
creation of the vineyard at Monticello. [Verb Tense]
10. When the sun rises at the spring equinox, its first rays strike the ancient symbol that was carved into the back wall of the
cave in West Virginia during prehistoric times. [Verb Tense]

11. The managing director said that the firm had ordered the goods and would have to pay for them.
[Verb Tense]
12. Today, when Indian leaders initiate lawsuits seeking the return of ancestral lands, the government often offers to settle
the disputes out of court. [Verb Tense]

13. As soon as the leaves begin to assume their brilliant fall colours, many city-dwellers leap into rented cars and speed
northward for one brief annual contact with Nature. [Verb Tense]

14. If I had studied for this examination, I would have won the medal; as it was, I received a very good grade without even
trying. [Conditional Sentences]
15. They live in stone-age conditions, as it were. [Use of Subjunctive Mood]

16. -If he be found guilty and receive a prison sentence, his family will suffer. OR
-If he is found guilty and receives a prison sentence, his family will suffer.
[Use of Subjunctive or Indicative Mood]
17. The region has a climate so severe that plants growing there rarely have been more than twelve inches high. [Verb Tense]

18. As soon as the roses bloom their last in late summer or early autumn, most gardeners begin the annual task of heavy
pruning. [Verb Tense]
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