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All right as firing a ct english papers Here we

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go nine of twelve We're making progress I had begun

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to understand That's where our focus is way down here

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in paragraph four Let's just head on down there I

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had three favorite activities finding coconuts catching lizards and swimming

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in the ocean I learned to scale coconut trees with

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the ease of a monkey I would then smash open

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the coconuts i had picked and drink their suites We've

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water I had begun to understand when it was going

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to rain by listening to the monkeys and birds All

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right well let's think about this I can understand I

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had begun to understand I began Definitely not I'd be

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gonna understand We're just skimming The answer was beginning Well

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think about this in writing As with best mac and

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cheese consistency is everything in grammar Consistency is usually called

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agreement like each topic or each element in a sentence

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has to agree along the food chain there But it's

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pretty much the same thing here Well we want verb

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tenses to agree with a paragraph or document unless there's

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a good reason to change him Well here the paragraph

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is the simple past tense that the underlined part is

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in the past Perfect tense which basically functions as a

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super past tense and talked about something that happened before

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whatever happened in the past tense right Well here's an

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example of the past perfect in action I had just

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started by assignment when the power went out Got it

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Well in the case of our sense there's no good

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reason to use any verb tense Other men the simple

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past tense Don't be fooled by the second answer Choice

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which uses the participle be gun Where the past tense

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began is correct Just a biped Ask the has continuous

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tense all together Got it So the answer is d

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here gatti Etta I would then smash on the coconuts

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i had picked entering their sweetwater I began to understand

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when it was going to rain by listening to the

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monkeys and birds Got it That's it It's the as

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in you know we're done

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