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SAT Writing & Language: Maintaining Parallel Structure with Verb Tenses 4 Views


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Do tenses confuse you? Watch this SAT Writing video to get some practice in


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Arch members only two more of these things and focus

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here is on having begun so well We've read this

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thing eighteen times now So we're going to cruise down

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to here second last paragraph because it was already producing

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results with ford and relaxing having begun developing project next

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month to advance research on cost And i don't even

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think about it Think about it So these two companies

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will start a project next month In order to maintain

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the sentence structure we need a verb ending in ing

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to suggest the progressive action it's a jared it's happening

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now and continuing to happen In other words we need

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to show that the action will be happening or progressing

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at a certain time and we have a time or

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two tins problem here having plus a verb that ends

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in is an example of the past part of simple

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which is used when an action has already been completed

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The project in the sentence won't start until next month

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so there's no way it's already done so get rid

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of a though the companies will also be having a

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joint development project joint development Actually having the project doesn't

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describe what they'll be doing with it began past tense

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of begin is impossible without time travel since project doesn't

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start until next month So yeah it's be beginning that's

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what you replace it with and well then we're done

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